All Charles Saatchi Quotes
- If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people. Good
- 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… Ambition
- The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. Art
- 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… Advertising
- 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… Advice
- Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue Inspirational
- 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… Ago
- 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;… Art
- Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. Artist
- There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good. Artist
- I primarily buy art to show it off. Art
- 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… Art
- My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit. Aim
- Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. Art
- When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime. Critic
- When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows - literally unforgettable because you remember… Curator
- 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… Art
- Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday. Great
- 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… Been
- 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… Acclaim
- I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored. Art
- I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten. Been
- By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered. Brilliance
- Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy… Art
- Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art. All