"DSC36"  30X24 Inches  Acrylic on board

The determination of price on the art market has more to do with fashion, rarity, prestige, investment, and ostentation than with that quality which determines artistic reception.
Arnold Hauser, 1972.
Hauser, Sociology of Art, p. 516.

Quality in art can be neither ascertained nor proved by logic or discourse. Experience alone rules in this area...Yet, quality in art is not just a matter of private experience. There is a consensus of taste. The best taste is that of the people who, in each generation, spend the most time and trouble on art, and this best taste has alwys turned out to be unanimous, within certain limits.
Clement Greenberg, 1961.
Greenberg, Collected Essays and Criticism, 4:118