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Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

— Adam Davidson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Arne Glimcher

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

— Linus Torvalds

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

— Yoko Ono

Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.

— Jerry Saltz

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

— Jerry Saltz

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

— Carl Andre

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

— James Surowiecki

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

— Jeanette Winterson

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

— Simon Raven

✗Opposing Perspectives

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

— John Guare