Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials.… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share
If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share
If, like me, you have many reasons to be less than secure and self-assured, and like me, you are far from stable even on… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share
I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials. And I… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share
Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share
If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share
My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share
Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share
I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share
I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share
I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share
The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share
It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share
I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share
