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In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.

— Brad Holland

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— John Guare

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

— Bob Ross

Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.

— Charles Saatchi

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

— Brian Eno

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

— Thomas Kincade

I've heard that many fine artists have to turn their 'finished' paintings to face the wall - otherwise, every time they walk past, they are tempted to pick up a brush and make small adjustments here and there.

— Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

— James Surowiecki

✗Opposing Perspectives

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

— Cesare Pavese

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.

— John Guare

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

— Edvard Munch