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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I give away thousands of paintings for free.
I make paintings, try to get others to look at them and hopefully buy them.
I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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.
My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.
I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold.
I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.
If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.