Contemporary Quote by Stuart Pearson Wright

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

— Jeffrey Archer

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…

— John Guare

People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human…

— John Guare

Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

— Paulo Coelho

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.

— Wade Guyton

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…

— Liam Gillick

I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.

— Selima Hill

The real value of art is not always revealed by the price set upon it.

— Jeffrey Loria

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

— Damien Hirst

Nobody really needs a painting. It's something you kind of create value for in a way that you don't with a company. It's an…

— Larry Gagosian

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more…

— Vincent Van Gogh