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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 632846" data-attributes="member: 812">Just how does the average person see things? I'm sure I have no idea.More generally, it seems strange to me that people are justifying the price of art based on the amount of effort put into it.Effort has nothing to do with the value of anything -- except insofar as things that are difficult to make are going to naturally be in shorter supply. Under normal circumstances those things are going to be more valuable than other, more common things.The value of your artwork is whatever you can get someone to pay for it. And the more that is, hey, the more power to you. But it's not recompense for your time and effort. Nobody gets that.We all earn the money our services are worth -- regardless of how much effort we put into them. If painting is for me an effortless thing, that I dash off with no hard work or travail, are my paintings therefore worth less than someone else's who struggles and labour over each stroke?Of course not. The value of each artists' paintings is always whatever the market will bear -- that is, however much they can get someone to pay for it.If you say, "I worked really hard on this painting and I must have $100 for it," then what do you do if nobody will buy it at that price? Is it still worth that amount even if nobody will buy it?</blockquote>