Michel Foucault Quotes

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

Michel Foucault

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• I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Doubt
  • Print
  • Traditional

• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Done
  • America

• My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Accomplish

• It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Wish
  • Enough
  • Just

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Always
  • Weird
  • Find

• Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Action
  • Lost
  • Path

• A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • True
  • Feeling
  • Community

• When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Time
  • Work
  • Relationship

• And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Me
  • Best
  • Years

• You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Age
  • Dreams
  • Your Dreams

• Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Men
  • Cold
  • Pants

• Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

  

  Madeleine Albright

• The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • School
  • May

• The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Fall

• Too much has already been said and written about 'women's sphere'. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Women

• My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Life
  • Music

• With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Live
  • Art
  • Earth

• Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.

  

  James Rosenquist
  • Believe
  • Art

• Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

  

  Jim Evans
  • Job
  • Respect

• His lips, his soft and amazing lips, touch mine and the world spins with a different kind of magic. This kind isn't evil or hard, but lovely and wild, and I melt into it. He melts into it too, I can tell. I can feel how much he loves me just but the touch of his lips. And it is a good love, a really good love.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Magic

• Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Madness