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.
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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.
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.
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.
I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.
We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.
I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
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