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Patt,
As for the artists that are painting comparable old masters for $260.00 instead of $260,000.00, I would say they have made it, but must be living in a cave and don't know it.
True story: a doctor I worked for told me this story. He knew a plastic surgeon who didn't particularly like doing facelifts (they take a long time to do). This surgeon decided he was at a point in his career and didn't need to do any more facelifts. He would rather do other procedures. So, he raised his fees on facelifts to an exhorbitant amount, thinking people would go somewhere else for this procedure. Instead of that happening, he had more people wanting him to do facelifts then ever before. Moral of the story is the public thought that since he was charging so much, he must be better than anyone else doing them. People were traveling from out of town to come to him.
The public perceives price for quality. I think Kinkade (sorry) figured this out.
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