Famous quotes containing the words central and/or message:
“The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious—that is, a disease not understood—in an era in which medicine’s central premise is that all diseases can be cured.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“The photographic image ... is a message without a code.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)