More importantly, the story was accompanied by a large colour picture of the sculpture which, with the wind in the right direction and the full apparatus of publicity and promotion behind it, was about to begin the crossover to icon status. An accumulation of nameless energies. One million pounds. The magic six noughts. People can tell you what things are worth, but it's not what they're worth.
Money seems to skitter through everything and be ungraspable.
I couldn't believe you would do that. I hated the idea that he would buy something sight unseen. Because you make visual art. And for him to do that would mean that it was nothing to do with that. It was all to do with gambling.