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Charles Saatchi Quotes



Quotes by Charles Saatchi - (11 quotes)

Charles Saatchi - From the Collectors category:

I primarily buy art to show it off. (Charles Saatchi)

Charles Saatchi - From the Collectors category:

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

Charles Saatchi - From the Collectors category:

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. (Charles Saatchi)

Charles Saatchi - From the Critics category:

When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime. (Charles Saatchi)

Charles Saatchi - From the Dealers category:

When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe great curators and their unforgettable shows – literally unforgettable because you remember every picture, every wall and every juxtaposition. (Charles Saatchi)

Charles Saatchi - From the Eccentricity category:

Let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. I love them all. (Charles Saatchi)

Charles Saatchi - From the Genius category:

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. (Charles Saatchi)

Charles Saatchi - From the Greatness category:

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday. (Charles Saatchi)

Charles Saatchi - From the Painting category:

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. (Charles Saatchi)

Charles Saatchi - From the Pathfinders category:

Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists who don't register so keenly at the time, prove to be trailblazers. (Charles Saatchi)

Charles Saatchi - From the Renewal category:

I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored. (Charles Saatchi)