Why do people pay for art?

answers1: Clearly we value creativity. <br>
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Art is an expression of human creativity. <br>
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Art is a labor of the human condition for the artist, so if labor has
value, and the creation translates that labor effectively, then we say
"this is talent, let us compensate it that the talent might render
more art!"
answers2: It's a labor of love.. It is passionately created..
Unfortunately, some people pay for art to hang them on the wall and be
admired for something they are able to "acquire". Art is expensive and
paying for an expensive art is a social status.
answers3: maybe because its one up on someone can show how much money
is in our pocket? what do we base art on anyway it goes from amzin
works to abstract splashes of paint. its all what we hold in our hand
at the moment that makes it valuable to buy maybe its a artist that a
long lost loved one admired and we buy it for that reason. and its all
perceptive what we human minds find talented and strickin in beauty we
reason even is that somethin we could recreate or no thats out of this
world one of a kind that human instinct of got to have it
answers4: Some people like art. <br>
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There's nothing really more to it than that. They see something that's
art, get inspired, want to buy it and put it in their house because it
inspires them or makes them happy....
answers5: It's unique, it's creative, it's expressive. <br>
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We are given basic art education, but this is not why art exists or
has value. Cavemen created art for their own enjoyment, creativity
and expression. TBH it was probably some caveman looking to pick up
chicks, he says "come back to my cave and check out my mammoth". It
was only later that as economies and art developed that selling it as
a product or commodity came about.
answers6: I see no point in buying it either..I rather just look at
that piece of art and admire it.Not buy.. <br>
Some just want it,because they are inspired and they just have to have it. <br>
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Like people who buy so so many clothes when they don't wear all of them.. <br>
what's the point in that... <br>
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People will pay for things just because they feel like it.. Art is
everywhere will people buy everything in this world when they can't...
hmm
answers7: An important property of art is its ability to influence
emotions. It is more obvious in some forms of art than in others
(think music versus paintings). If something tugs at your
heartstrings, you'll be more inclined to pay for it, and this applies
not only to art, but also to more mundane products. How do you think
the advertising industry got so big? <br>
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Another factor I'm more acquainted with is people's amazement at
somebody's skill or at the beauty of one's work. They just like pretty
or well-made stuff, and want to possess it, and they understand the
concept of scarcity well enough to be willing to pay big money for it.
I've experienced this firsthand. I'm fairly good at drawing, see, and
I keep getting people fawning over the lousiest of my drawings. I can
totally see them paying for it one day, were I a tad more talented and
a lot less sloppy about my "art".
answers8: They pay for the chance to see life through anothers eyes