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.
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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.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
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For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'
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We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
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I feel there has to be a certain amount of improvisation as I'm writing, which means any idea or any commitment to a project is risky. It involves time; it involves gathering of material, and sometimes it just doesn't work. Sometimes it does. As I'm starting out on a project, I can't tell if it will click or not.
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It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.
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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important.
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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.
