Million Dollar Painting

Million Dollar Painting

And no doubt you worked hard for your money. But before you place your anonymous bid for that multi-million dollar van Gogh or Rembrandt, consider this:

Every minute, 12 kids in the world die from starvation and the cost to have fed all 12 kids nourishing meal is just over 2 dollars per day (source: World Food Program).

For the price of a 10000 dollar painting, you can save the lives of 1800 kids and nourish them to health by feeding them for a month. For the price of a quarter million dollar painting, you can save 45000 kids by feeding them for a month.

For a million dollar painting, that number rises to 175000 children. And for his 139 million dollar painting, Steve Wynn could have saved the lives of over 24 million children.

Do you buy paintings because you take joy in their beauty? Wouldn't you derive even more joy in the beauty of saving thousands or even millions of innocent children?

Perhaps you're interested in paintings more as an investment. If so, why not buy the paintings of promising but undiscovered artists?

Your return on investment could be as spectacular as the dollar amount you save up front, which can be invested in saving thousands or even millions of children.

Or perhaps you like the respect your friends pay you for the Renoir hanging on your wall? If so, wouldn't your friends respect you more for saving millions of children?

Something else. Are you sure your money isn't a blessing from God?

"There is no God," you say? Check out these photos.