The saying goes that “The business of business is business.” But is that true? Is the chief or only point of a corporation to make money, or do businesses have an obligation to serve some larger purpose beyond financial gain?
What would you say are the responsibilities of businesses?
Money is a fiction—a common understanding we agree to share about bits of metal and paper or numbers on a computer—and yet it is the thing that takes of the greatest part of most people’s time and attention.
In what area of your life does that fiction of money feel most urgent and real?
An infinity of shapes are inherent in the clay—and if you don’t like what you get you can always mush it up and start again. The clay only becomes rigid and fixed once it is fired. That, of course, is the point at which it becomes useful.
Are you more engaged by possibilities or results?
Any personal act of creation happens in the context of all that has gone before. No idea or craft or skill or technique exists in a vacuum. The only way to create is together with those who have gone before us and those who surround us.
Whose creations have particularly inspired your own?
“Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.” —Victor Pinchuk
Where do you see art and creativity shaping our society?
