Michel Foucault

Quotes

• “Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery o...”
• “The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to b...”
• “Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in ti...”
• “What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to i...”
• “Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.”