What art taught us about intentional spending

Mm.

But I want to just sort of sum up, um, Julia, for our, for our listeners.

You know, we've, we've shared a lot of our emotional purchases.

[laughs]

[laughs]

[laughs] For what?

Don't do that at home.

[laughs]

For better or for worse.

Um, so, so maybe when you go to an art gallery, leave your credit card behind, would probably be the first one.

But if you're standing in front of that piece of work and you're trying to decide whether or not to buy it, can you give us kind of three core questions- To ask first.

Well, I can give you mine, but of course you're going to get other, other questions from other people.

Well, I think Julia, as a curator-

But [laughs]

... with a huge amount of experience, I'm very interested in your three questions.

[laughs] The first one's a bit of a wacky one.

When you have that emotional response yourself first, I would then say to you, ask yourself why the artist made this work.

What in this work interested the artist? Because that's where you're going to think about the work of art as a communication with the person who made it.

That's where you're going to begin to pick up the poetry, I think.

Mm.

And then go, "Do I want to live with it? And is that going to give me more opportunities to see more every day?" And then the money question of, "If I'm going to buy work by this artist, how far can I stretch my money to buy the best thing that I possibly can from that artist?" So don't discount yourself.

Don't buy just that little thing on the table.

Rather ask if you can pay it off and buy that thing that really moves you that you saw.

Mm.

But spend the maximum that you possibly can at that moment for the thing that really moves you.

Mm.

But I want to just sort of sum up, um, Julia, for our, for our listeners.

You know, we've, we've shared a lot of our emotional purchases.

[laughs]

[laughs]

[laughs] For what?

Don't do that at home.

[laughs]

For better or for worse.

Um, so, so maybe when you go to an art gallery, leave your credit card behind, would probably be the first one.

But if you're standing in front of that piece of work and you're trying to decide whether or not to buy it, can you give us kind of three core questions- To ask first.

Well, I can give you mine, but of course you're going to get other, other questions from other people.

Well, I think Julia, as a curator-

But [laughs]

... with a huge amount of experience, I'm very interested in your three questions.

[laughs] The first one's a bit of a wacky one.

When you have that emotional response yourself first, I would then say to you, ask yourself why the artist made this work.

What in this work interested the artist? Because that's where you're going to think about the work of art as a communication with the person who made it.

That's where you're going to begin to pick up the poetry, I think.

Mm.

And then go, "Do I want to live with it? And is that going to give me more opportunities to see more every day?" And then the money question of, "If I'm going to buy work by this artist, how far can I stretch my money to buy the best thing that I possibly can from that artist?" So don't discount yourself.

Don't buy just that little thing on the table.

Rather ask if you can pay it off and buy that thing that really moves you that you saw.

Mm.

But spend the maximum that you possibly can at that moment for the thing that really moves you.