Jean Baudrillard - From the Accidents category:
A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Art category:
Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Boredom category:
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Confession category:
When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them? (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Courage category:
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Greatness category:
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Information category:
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Jealousy category:
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Language category:
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Meaning category:
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Meaning category:
There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Mirrors category:
Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Modernism category:
You are born modern, you do not become so. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Money category:
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Order category:
The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Photography category:
It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Realism category:
So-called 'realist' photography does not capture the 'what is.' Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Reality category:
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Reality category:
-Simulations, 1983... The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Searching category:
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Theory category:
The secret of theory is that truth does not exist. (Jean Baudrillard)
Jean Baudrillard - From the Wisdom category:
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead sets themselves against it. (Jean Baudrillard)
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