Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.
Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.
Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.
A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.
I collect a lot of art.
Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art.