Full Idea
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?
Gist of Idea
Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art?
Source
Michel Foucault (On the Genealogy of Ethics [1983], p.261)
Book Reference
Foucault,Michel: 'Essential Works 1954-1984 I: Ethics', ed/tr. Rabinow,Paul [Penguin 1994], p.261
A Reaction
This sounds wonderfully appealing until I try to think how I would implement it. The Augustine move, from sinner to saint, is a possibility, but there is nothing good about sin. The Christian ideal, of colossal self-sacrifice, can be very heroic.