Quotes About Value

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

My art has gained some high value.

The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You become good in art by doing art. The more you sell, the more you must produce.

Y a-t-il plus belle parodie de l'éthique de la valeur que de se soumettre avec toute l'intransigeance de la vertu aux données du hasard ou à l'absurdité d'une règle?

Wine pricing is an art - like painting.

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe.

As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me."

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.