Quote of Note | Tobias Meyer

“Contemporary art has become a little too much like American Idol. We’re an overvisualized culture, and young artists can find themselves with a real career only six months after starting to paint. Works that were $10,000 two months ago can become $65,000 overnight; two years from now they might be $400,000, then $2 million. So there’s no time to reflect: You only get that luxury if you’re very wealthy, because if you wait until the world decides an artist is great you must be ready to spend millions.”