Art Quote by Charles Saatchi

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

— Charles Saatchi

Most collectors I know don't think of art as a business or as an investment.

— Norman Braman

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

— Charles Saatchi

I hate it when people say that art shouldnt be a commodity. A lot of the rooms in museums, and all the Frieze week…

— Grayson Perry

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

— Eli Broad

I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market…

— Olafur Eliasson

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.

— David Lee

There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic value.

— Kehinde Wiley

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using…

— Howard Hodgkin

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust…

— Steve Martin

I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set…

— Philip Johnson

For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the artist, then…

— Larry Gagosian