Paulo Coelho Quotes

Art can retain its value and even make you some money. If you have your iPhone on you - and you probably do - look for the artist's signature, and use that to look up the artist and get a sense of the piece's value before you buy it.

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic value.

The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but I'm not about to go along with the gallery system.

In the art world, Monet means money.

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.

A work is not art until enough noise has been made about it and someone rich comes along and buys it.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

The art world is a bit smaller than the music world, and the music world is a bit smaller than the cinema world. But the art world is pretty tight even though the biggest thing that's happened to it is the auctions, which are the only reason people on the outside know anything about it.

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.

A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything.

I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.

Buying art is not understanding art.

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.

I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.