Charles Saatchi Quotes

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• If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.
• Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a…
• The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.
• 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 don't…
• 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 be…
• Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue
• I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better…
• Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs;…
• Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.
• There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.
• I primarily buy art to show it off.
• Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is…
• My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
• Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.
• When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.
• When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows - literally unforgettable because you remember…
• If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and…
• Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.
• The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than…
• Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists…

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