A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't do anything. That means that this work is an illustration of theory, and I don't believe in the power of the work itself.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
The value of art is in the observer.
In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.
The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.
Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art has always been the 'realized' expression of equilibrium.
The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.