I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.
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.
Art is fun to buy.
People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.
I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.