When you buy art, you do not buy an object. You do not buy media: paints, canvases, brushes, ceramics, watercolours or pencils. You do not buy square meters or volumes. You do not buy hours, days or years of work. You do not even buy craft. Craft is of no need to you - an artist needs craft as the ability to explain, to convey experience, states, recognition, understanding…
And this is what you buy when you buy art. You buy the possibility to look at the world differently, to become deeper, to become higher, to become more aware. Again and again you buy the answers to the deepest questions. How did an artist get that view? This is all his way, all his history - inside and outside: what he studied, what he lived through, which decisions he made and what were the results, and most importantly, how it felt, how was it, what was the essence of that process.
The price of the art is life. Real, aware, deep. This is what you buy, and this is what costs you crazy sums of money, and it is absolutely worth it.