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What is the correct way to value art?

• cpayne 11y ago
  The only answer I can see is - whatever the market is willing to pay. I can't understand the high prices for art, but I can see it for musical instruments [1]. My wife can "hear" a Stradivari. It doesn't make my hearing bad or hers good - it's just different. A violin + played as the Titanic sunk? The story behind the instrument makes it valuable (to me!) As with anything emotional, how do you value the first time you hear your child's giggle, the first time you kissed a lover, the first time someone close to you passed away? For me, articles like this just reaffirm: Am I happy? (right now, in the moment) and if not, what do I need to do to make it so? [1] http://www.cmuse.org/12-most-expensive-violins/ http://www.cmuse.org/12-most-expensive-violins/