If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.
Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.
There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the renewal and refreshment of its artists and dealers. When that stops happening, it's the end.
Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.
People don't buy and sell art based on the personality of the artist. Or there wouldn't be much art bought and sold.
Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.
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.
As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.
As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.