"When a critic knows what she or he……" — Charles Saatchi
"When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime."
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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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Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work…
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More Critic Quotes
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I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
— Joseph Addison
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism…
— Walter Benjamin
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its…
— Theodore Bikel
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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically…
— Jim Bishop
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Be a doer and not a critic.
— Tony Blair
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I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of…
— Mary J. Blige
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Now everyone is a critic.
— Christina Aguilera
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what…
— Michael Caine
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A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.
— Tony Campolo
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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of…
— Raymond Chandler
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