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I like to make things that are not fixed, that move, that are alive.

I have made the gods in my own image.

I have set myself to create a god, not a man.

Art is not nature. It is a harmony parallel to nature.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another.

Asymmetric information can lead to market failure.

I don't think I'm a great artist. I'm a good illustrator.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.

The Arrow Impossibility Theorem shows that any attempt to aggregate individual preferences into a collective choice will run into paradoxes.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

The economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behavior.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but the subconscious, the mystery of the instinct in the human race.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws—or crafts its advanced economic legislation—if I can write its textbooks.

I don't think any man would ever treat a woman as his equal, and that's all I would ask, for I know I'm worth as much as they are.

I have touched with a sense of art some people—they felt the need of it, and for that I am glad.

When I have a thing to express, I don't think of the way in which it has been done before. I think only of my subject.

Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

A good painter has two chief objects to paint: man and the intention of his soul.