People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.
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.
Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.
Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
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.
I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.
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