Its a whole lot better to sell after your dead but try making a living at it
It's a whole lot better to create art first. "David" was commissioned for an equivalent of about $25-30K. Some years ago in Rochester (NY) on Lake Avenue there was a contemporary "sculpture" which was resembling an oversized hex nut, maybe 15 feet in diameter. If memory serves, the city paid for it about $50K. May it serve as an illustration of the dubious validity and worth of what passes for contemporary art. The proper valuation for it is precisely the cost of materials minus the cost of removal.