A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.
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.
Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.