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I like the idea of taking something that's very familiar and making it unfamiliar.

Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for evaluating interventions in development economics.

Art is not about making things, it's about making sense.

I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and I saw an opportunity to make a historical record.

Art is the signature of civilization.

To be a sculptor, you must be a poet, a philosopher, a politician, a scientist, a craftsman, and a dreamer.

I belong to the generation that was born with the machine.

We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.

To draw is to make a record of the process of seeing.

Ideas alone can be works of art.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

I am interested in the void, the moment when something disappears, or is about to disappear, or has just disappeared.

I'm interested in the kind of human beings that are not beautiful, not glamorous, not heroic, but the kind of people you see every day.

I try to make a beautiful form, a beautiful volume. That is all.

The true artist must be a poet, a philosopher, and a man of the world.

And I strove to imitate the Greeks, not only in their proportions but in their compositions.

I have fallen into a chasm. I live in a world so curious, so strange. The world of the mad.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

To be a sculptor is to be a maker of objects, and the objects are made to be seen and touched and walked around.