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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 631819" data-attributes="member: 4937">kkoie:  I don't think I remotely resemble 'average Joe' in either intelligence, education, culture, or life experience, but to be entirely frank - I don't understand what more that there is to art than the materials, time, and skill that went into producing it.  It is ridiculous to assert that there is no such thing as a 'market price' for art.   I know for a fact that there is a 'market price' for the written word - so many cents per word, so many dollars for an article of a certain length.  I know for a fact that when visual art is commisioned, that rates and fees are set by the prevailing rates that are standard in the industry which hires the artist.  I know that there is a market price for the cost of contracting a recording artist, or for bringing that artist to a local venue for a concert.   I know for a fact that architects work according to standard rates and fees used throughout their industry.  The fee paid to the artist may vary according to the demand for that artists work, but certainly there are standard fees paid to an artist for a 'gig'.   Why should one particular kind of art be different not only from all other kinds of commodities, but also from all other kinds of art?  Why should 'artist' be different than any other kind of tradesman?You say yourself that there are works you have produced which you will not part with for any price.  Do you think it unfair of me to think then that you are valuing your art by a personal standard having little to do with making a living as an artist?</blockquote>

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