"[…] Pain, Eros and money are three elements that are part of the history of humanity and that economic science has tried to erase when creating wealth. [… ] Economy has not solved the experience of pain, because when we move from money to 'goods', to well-being, the so-called 'paradox of happiness' is triggered, and the 'good', used to gain its usefulness, turns out to produce only pain, because true happiness lies in the full realization of desire, but this is indefinitely different from the economy of money as a commodity."
Luigino Bruni, intervention at the exhibition Bruno Pinto. Dopo il Silenzio, edited by Peter Weiermaier, with contributions by Massimo Cacciari, Valerio Dehò, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna 2003.