Quotes by Barthes, Roland

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble >>

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it c >>

To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that >>

Quotations about Automobiles

Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel >>

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore >>

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomo >>

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

Barthes, Roland