Eternal Artists

I was having a discussion with an artist friend the other day about galleries and artists. For those of you who don't know, I work at a gallery and sell other peoples paintings for a living. My artist friend was saying was how we (artists) want to be represented by the big time galleries. And we do.

But what I was said was, "The galleries are actually second tier to the artists. We are the most important part of the enterprise, because when the galleries that we want to show at go broke, nobody really remembers them, but we the artists remain and our work is what is left intact."