Roland Barthes Quotes

Everything anachronistic is obscene.

Language is a skin; I rub my language against another language.

Any refusal of language is a death.

Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.

Cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals…the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consummated in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.