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“Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It’s really not about other people’s needs and assumptions. I’m not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.”

— Richard Serra

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The dopamine, the deceitful dopamine, gives them a false sense of value.

— Soroosh Shahrivar

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“I have no regrets. My life is squares, triangles, lines.” — Vera Molnár

Vera Molnár
Themes and Variations #1
2023
computer generated
631 Eth/$1.2 million
500 generative art NFTs

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American Masters Rothko

FYI: I love sharing my favorite artists not just for inspiration but also to educate about their creative processes and thoughts. It’s fascinating to see how some artists still believe that only realism qualifies as fine art, overlooking other forms. I wonder what kind of art history they’re being taught in their school.

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“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” — Carl Jung

(The subject of the artwork may not necessarily be related to the quote.)

1/1 NFT Abstract Art 0001 Series: Nocturnal
2020
Size: 5400 x 7200 pixels (18 x 24 in.)
RGB, JPEG
Resolution: 300 pixels/inch

Both physical and NFT items are now available in our store.

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“Always take yourself seriously… it’s not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the small little ideas that creep up in your mind, often contain the germ of a much larger project. All great art wasn’t born as great art. It first needed to be recognized by the artist him/herself. Through his or her belief in it, it became true.” — Wolfgang Tillmans

Wolfgang Tillmans (b.1968)
Wäscheberg
inkjet print mounted on aluminum, in artist’s frame
sheet: 36 ½ x 29 ½ in.
Price Realised
USD 17,500

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“I have found that in accepting and immersing myself in subject matter I paint with more intensity and that the ‘hows’ of painting are more inevitably determined by the ‘whats’.” — David Park

David Park (1911-1960)
Two Heads
1959
oil on canvas
24 x 26 in.
Price realised
USD 1,022,500

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What Makes Art Valuable?

“The whole thing [about] art and money is ridiculous. The value of a painting at auction is not necessarily the value of the painting. It’s the value of two people bidding against each other because they really want the painting.”