Charles Saatchi Quotes
Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.
The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.
There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.
I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.
Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.
I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.
Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?
I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.
If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.
When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.
If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.
