By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.
The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art.
Money is something that can be measured; art is not. It's all subjective.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
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.