About Quote by Charles Saatchi

“Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s hard to know where to put it all. Art is transportable, unregulated, glamorous, arcane, beautiful,…

— Nick Paumgarten

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit…

— George Bernard Shaw

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create,…

— Adam Davidson

I would imagine, a very large percentage of people who get something for art and they do something else, and they have some excess…

— Lawrence Weiner

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an…

— Pam Brown

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

— Fernando Pessoa

Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For…

— Elaine de Kooning

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

— James Surowiecki

The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art.

— Steve Martin

I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're…

— Sandra Bullock

Perhaps the world of art is just one vast pretence, in which we all take part since, after all, there is no real cost…

— Roger Scruton

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

— Charles Baudelaire