Michel Foucault Quotes

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

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• Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

  

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• Politics is the art of the next best.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
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• I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

  

  Nat Wolff
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• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

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• My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

  

  Carl Andre
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• Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

  

  Ed Koch
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• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

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• For me, as an actor, there is no commercial or independent or art cinema. For me, it's a character that is given by the director. And it is a task for me that I have to fulfill it to the best of my ability regardless of the kind of film that it is.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
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• Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

  

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• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

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• I feel like science and art are cousins.

  

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• My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

  

  Abraham Verghese
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• For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.

  

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• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  

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• Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

  

  Camille Pissarro
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• I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

  

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• Translation is the art of failure.

  

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• Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.

  

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• People say that it is so hard to bring Jesus Christ and present him before the lives of men today. Of course it is. It is so hard that it is impossible except by the power of the indwelling Holy Ghost.

  

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• Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

  

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• Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.

  

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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.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Art
  • Self
  • Consequence