"Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity.……" — Charles Saatchi
"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 more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't."
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Charles Saatchi
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32 Quotes by Charles Saatchi
Charles Saatchi has 32 quotes on this site.
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If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.
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Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's…
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The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully…
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I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by…
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Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions,…
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Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue
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I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing…
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Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites;…
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Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to…
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There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be…
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I primarily buy art to show it off.
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My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
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