Michel Foucault Quotes about Art

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From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Michel Foucault

Art, Thinking, Self

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?

Michel Foucault

Art, House, Experts

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

Michel Foucault

Art, House, Lamps

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Michel Foucault

Art, Our Society, Facts

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

Time, Art, Madness

Michel Foucault (2001). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.273, Psychology Press

Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes merely a manifestation of a language which has no other law than that of affirming in opposition to all other forms of discourse its own precipitous existence.

Michel Foucault

Art, Order, Law

Michel Foucault (2005). “The Order of Things”, p.327, Routledge

Michel Foucault Quotes about Art

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