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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.
Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit another culture, place, and time period, and address the issues of those time periods that resonate with our own time.
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
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.
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.
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.