“What strikes me is the fact that, in our society, art has become something that is related only to objects and not to individuals or to life. That art is something which is specialized or 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, “On the Genealogy of Ethics”
(thanks to my collaborator Brendan Healy for making me aware of this quote)