"It makes me happy to think that this……" — Adam Davidson
"It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it."
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23 Quotes by Adam Davidson
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and…
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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of…
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Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
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Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic…
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right -…
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits…
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We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and…
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The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one…
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Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like…
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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