&quot;There&#x27;s no way to determine good or shitty artist.&quot;<p>You need an expert opinion to see through the fake reviews and artificially inflated prices. There is a way. Among artists, it&#x27;s generally accepted who has more raw talent, who&#x27;s more prolific and so on. It&#x27;s never absolutely clear but it&#x27;s clear enough. As an artist, you work with these other artists and it becomes apparent after a while. Spoken or unspoken. Matisse respected Picasso. Picasso respected Cezanne. Cezanne respected Monet, and so on. Those aren&#x27;t fake endorsements. It&#x27;s not like a sport where you just follow a predetermined formula, add up some points and choose a winner. It&#x27;s about perception, which is what artists really do. The painting is the end result of how that artist lives and perceives the world--that&#x27;s the raw talent. But if you&#x27;re not in that environment, you&#x27;re not going to notice it. You get movements like Impressionism, where somebody like Monet earns respect from peers and that reputation spreads and it expands from there.