Charles Saatchi

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it…

— Charles Saatchi

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

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go…

— Charles Saatchi

When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.

— Charles Saatchi

Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.

— Charles Saatchi

I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled…

— Charles Saatchi

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

— Charles Saatchi

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

Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why…

— Charles Saatchi

I primarily buy art to show it off.

— Charles Saatchi

The most abiding memory of visiting Lucian Freud's studio were his eyes, with the gimlet gaze of a Hooded Falcon. But he…

— Charles Saatchi

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I…

— Charles Saatchi

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

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

There are no hidden depths to me.

— Charles Saatchi

I have spent too long being able to manipulate the answers I want from market research to rely upon its findings any…

— Charles Saatchi

When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows - literally unforgettable…

— Charles Saatchi

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

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

I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half…

— Charles Saatchi

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

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

— Charles Saatchi