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Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and how you can make magic out of nothing.

Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

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.

People don't buy and sell art based on the personality of the artist. Or there wouldn't be much art bought and sold.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

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.

It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.

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.

The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it.