Art Quotes
Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.
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"The doughnut is a metaphor for a thriving economy."Kate Raworth
"Art reminds us of our shared humanity across all divisions."Abhijit Banerjee
"Art without audience is lonely; audience without art is impoverished."Abhijit Banerjee
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."Raj Patel
"Mathematical elegance and human behavior must dance together."Eric Maskin
"The most elegant solution is usually the one that requires no coercion."Eric Maskin
"Every auction tells a story about how we value what matters."Eric Maskin
"Art is the language spoken by those whom words have failed."Raj Patel
"We must learn to dance with the living world, not dominate it."Kate Raworth
"The economy is a story we tell ourselves; let's tell a better one."Kate Raworth
"The most elegant solutions are those that harness rather than fight human nature."Eric Maskin
"Good design is invisible because it makes doing the right thing easy."Eric Maskin
"Mechanism design is the art of constructing rules so that pursuing self-interest serves the public good."James Mirrlees
"Communication in markets happens through prices more clearly than through words."Vernon Smith
"Art and commerce need not be enemies; patronage proves otherwise."Vernon Smith
"Art is the soul speaking what words cannot express."Raj Patel
"Art is the voice of those who have no political power."Raj Patel
"Art captures what words cannot express."Hernando de Soto
"The artist and the explorer are kindred souls."Hernando de Soto
"Art speaks to something in us that words cannot reach."Angus Deaton
"Art challenges us to see the world differently."Angus Deaton
"Art is the soul's attempt to communicate what words cannot express."Raj Patel
"Art reminds us that there are infinite ways to interpret existence."Raj Patel
"The creative state is more important than the creative class."Mariana Mazzucato
"Art is the conversation between the soul of the maker and the heart of the witness."Raj Patel
"We buy things to signal who we want to be, not who we are."George Akerlof
"Art and commerce need not be enemies; they can elevate each other."Hernando de Soto
"Art reflects and critiques the economic systems that produce it"Thomas Piketty
"Art in governance is understanding what makes people want to cooperate."Elinor Ostrom
"Art is the expression of the soul that words cannot capture."Hernando de Soto