Art Quote by Charles Saatchi

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

— Charles Saatchi

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

— Norman Braman

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

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

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

People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but…

— Toni Onley

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

I was always a little bit of a collector and a hoarder. And whenever I got involved in anything, whatever it was - even…

— Laurence Graff

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

Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with the intention…

— Robert Crumb