Not everyone has the ability to differentiate between what is new and what is novel on the art market. This fact is mainly responsible for the confusion of the general public and the art world. Contemporary art objects have become a commodity. Today’s artistic manifestations are considered particularly modern or avant-garde the more they lack the power to arouse feelings of both emotional and intellectual satisfaction in the beholder. […] There are practitioners of the arts today who proclaim complacently that they love to be boring and, I agree, they succeed.