Money is a very complicated problem. The history of money is very curious.
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
If you forge a Carl Andre, it's just another Carl Andre. It's not like a Vermeer.
Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.