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Art Quotes by 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 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…
- 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;…
- 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…
- Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.
- 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…
- I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.
- 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…
- Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.
- Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for their giddily chic…
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov