As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.
You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.
Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.
Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.
Money is just something to be circulated.
As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.
Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.
Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.