When sufficiently wealthy people want something bad enough, it becomes invaluable, because then art isn’t experienced through the eyes, but by the ears, they’re not paying for a picture but for its name and history. In their world it isn’t the artist who should be admired, it’s the owner, because only something which has a price can have any value.
So true! This also resonates with how the wealthy destorying nature which is free and beautiful to create something that can be sold for a price.
