A sliver of intellectual foie gras from thought chef Michel Foucault:

"What strikes me is the fact that, in our society, art has become something that is related only to objects and not individuals or to life. That art is something which is specialized or done by 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?"

(Found quoted in the Play Ethic)