Art
Cultivating Your Own Eye
An introduction to collecting, beginning with unknown artists
Choose what speaks to you rather than a famous name. How to meet a piece you can live with for years.
Conversations about collecting often begin with value and market prices. What matters most, however, is cultivating your own eye: knowing what attracts you, rather than relying on someone else's assessment.
Unknown artists are a good place to begin. Without a price protecting the choice, you can decide simply whether you like it. You will make mistakes. Those mistakes develop your eye.
A piece you can live with for years looks a little different each time you see it. Its peak is not the moment of purchase; it grows slowly within daily life. I would like to wait patiently for that kind of encounter.
