For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gestu….

Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning: its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of words, but the ….

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life..

The necessary condition for an image is sight..

The Text is not a definitive object..

I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, eve….

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun..

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very existenc….

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula..

The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am her….

Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories? Doesn't every narrative lead….

A picture is never anything but its own plural description..

For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this image which produ….

Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the peti….

The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers..

I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one..

We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obl….

A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual ….

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient..

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking..

[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of m….