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
Quotes to Explore
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
Nat Wolff -
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
Carl Andre -
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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
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 -
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 -
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Oriana Fallaci
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butler -
I feel like science and art are cousins.
Kate McKinnon -
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 -
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.
Octavio Paz -
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.
Dan Brown -
I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Translation is the art of failure.
Umberto Eco -
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.
V. S. Naipaul -
I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I learned the technology and tradecraft of electronic security in self defense, with a lot of expert help.
Barton Gellman -
From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.
Sade Adu -
Judaism’s campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.
Camille Paglia
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Music is an art form that I love dearly, and it's allowed me to bring so many people together and meet so many people.
Janelle Monae -
Loving a thing is shallow, only if you don't deeply appreciate its emotional value.
Valerie Estelle Frankel -
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
Dorothea Lange -
Anyone can like their job... To love your job is not enough, you must give your passion to your job.
Zahi Hawass -
We have something called naked Sundays ... You have to keep marriage alive, spice it up ... We don't need to go anywhere, we're just with each other. We do everything naked. We cook naked.
Christina Aguilera -
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