The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory.
I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.
Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me.
The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity.
Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.
Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.
The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and everything related to it has become one of the most trivial activities of our epoch.
Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.