# Capitalism (sculpture)

Capitalism is a 1991 outdoor marble and concrete sculpture and fountain by Larry Kirkland, located in northeast Portland, Oregon, United States.

## Description

Larry Kirkland's Capitalism (1991) is an outdoor marble and concrete sculpture and fountain installed at the corner of Northeast 9th Avenue and Northeast Multnomah Street by the Lloyd Center. It was chosen in a regional art competition during Lloyd Center's renovation. The sculpture depicts fifty coins stacked on an Ionic column and is set in the center of a circular fountain basin with four water jets. Half of the coins have serious or humorous inscriptions on their edges relating to capitalism and commerce.
The allegorical sculpture measures 16 feet (4.9 m) tall and the basin's diameter is approximately 20 feet (6.1 m). It was surveyed and considered "treatment needed" by the Smithsonian Institution's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in July 1993. It has been included in published walking tours and public art guides, one of which called the sculpture "an appropriate reminder of the relationship of money to a marketplace".
The phrases about capitalism inscribed on the edges of the coins are as follows, from top to bottom.
1- Money and goods are certainly the best of references. CHARLES DICKENS
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3- Capitalism is the art of exploiting the need or desire someone has for something. EDMUND de GONCOURY
4- Danari, senne e fede, ce n’ manco l’umon creed. ITALIAN PROVERB
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6- When you ain’t got no money, well you needn’t come ‘round. POPULAR SONG 1898
7-Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant P.T. Barnum
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9- Money, like dung, does no good till ‘tis spread. Thomas Fuller M.D.
10-Business without profit, is not business anymore than a pickle is a candy. CHARLES ABBOT
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12- One must choose in life, between making money and spending it. EDOUARD BOURDET
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15- Never invest in anything that eats or needs repairing. Billy Rose
16- To the thrifty a penny is something to be put out to stud. OGDEN NASH
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17- As a general rule nobody has money who ought to have it. Benjamin Disraei
18- We will spend and spend, and tax and tax, and elect and elect. Harry Hopkins
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20- Life is short and so is money. Bentolt Briomi
21- That money talks, I’ll not deny, I heard it once. It said: “Goodbye”. Richard Armour
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23- The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller none. George Herbert.
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25- When nations grow old, the Arts grow cold, and Commerce settles on every tree. William Blake
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28- A disordered currency is one of the greatest evils. Daniel Webster
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30 Poco valle lo que poco cuesta. Spanish Proverb
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32 “Money is flat and meant to be piled up” Scottish Proverb
33 Money is round, and so quickly rolls away. French proverb
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36- What is true of the shopkeeper is true of the shopkeeper’s nation. Chinese proverb
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38 With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too. Yiddish Proverb
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41 I finally know what distinguishes us from other beasts: financial worries. Jules Renard
42 Money alone sets the world in motion. Publilius Syria
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44 To market, to market, to buy a fat pig. Home again, home again, jiggity jig. Nursery Rhyme.
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46 Fabricated in Oregon Memorials and SGF Scultura, Carrara, Italy LP Kirkland 1991
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