Many Many Many Many Q's & A's

This one's a tough question for me to answer because I'm relatively new to the art game and still pretty ignorant to the world of art collecting. Reading The Painted Word certainly shed some light, most notably that there's this .1% of the art world playing Wall Street, driving up the price of an artist (who sometimes seems like a random selection just for shits and giggles) as if they're hedge-fund managers looking to become filthy rich. And while the focus was on painting, I'm just guessing that drawing, photography, pottery, printmaking, and sculpture, are pretty similar markets, maybe just less valuable. My other guess is that there hasn't been much evolution. Sure, maybe there's a slight return towards praising and valuing artists who have dedicated 10,000 hours to their craft and another 10,000 to their ideology, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't some Joe Schmo out there being capitalized on. What'd be my evidence for this assumption? A cursory google search. https://news.artnet.com/people/the-top-10-uber-rich-art-collectors-157162
And maybe they're not the bad guys who drive up the prices, but as long as there are people with that kind of money looking to invest in a $100 million painting, there'll always be both a group of people to make a painting 'worth' $100 million and a Sutheby's to make that transaction occur.


Success means I'm happy. Success means I'm living the life I want to lead, surrounded by people I love, doing what I want to do, in a place that's fun to be. Of course money will be a factor; the truest thing I've read all week, "Also making money would be nice." -Magdalena Rieders. I wish it wasn't this way, I wish I never had to worry about money again and maybe that's another aspect of success but I want to have a family, send my kids to school, give them unique opportunities and experiences, as well as see a lot of the world myself, so money will be a part of success. But my mentor's mentor has a belief that a project isn't successful if the way you see it at the start is the same as how it is at the end. So, some of these aspirations may change and that's okay. But one thing for me is certain, to be successful, I need to do my part to leave this world a little better than I came into it.


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Great/Horrible quiz, understand that this ↓ was the second most uncomfortable question to think about.

That said, wouldn't it be a fun bonding experience if tomorrow we answered it in a group forum, where to pick an answer, you and those who agree with you stand on one side of the room, glaring at the other side wondering why you have to put up with those incompetent, dissenting philistines for the remainder of the year? Hmm, on second thought, that last part makes it sound like a not so good bonding experience.


-Ciarán