SDitAW: Chapter 3 - The Fair

1. I understand that the art world is a very competitive field and that making a living out of it is important; but reading into this chapter, I felt that somewhere along the way, art had sort of lost its original purpose of pleasing an audience, rather than bringing in a profit or any kind of fame.

2. Overall there was too much talk about the economy in art. It kinda bored me.

3. “An artist doesn’t become an artist in a day, so a collector shouldn’t become a collector in a day. It’s a lifetime process.” This is so true that it's not even funny. I see myself as both an artist and a collector, and in both cases I believe that I'll be spending the rest of my life in perfecting my craft and collection.

4. "Occasionally meeting an artist destroys the art. You almost don't trust it. You think what you're seeing in the work is an accident."

5. "In the art world, gossip is never idle. It is a vital form of market intelligence." Yeaaaaaah, I gotta give it to this one. Too many things ring true with this line. The only way to keep up with the art world is to hear what's going on and what's the latest big thing. Unfortunately for me, that's something that I need to work on.