Roland Barthes Quotes

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

You look in the mirror, but you don't see what you actually look like.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it's this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

I photograph people as I find them. But people have issues about how they look.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

I see myself as a normal guy - until I see myself in photos; then, 'Oh, I'm tall.'

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

I looked into the mirror and saw this middle-aged woman who keeps invading my face.

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.