Charles Saatchi Quotes

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An ace caff with quite a nice museum attached.

Charles Saatchi
Australians wouldn't give a XXXX for anything else.

Charles Saatchi
There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

Charles Saatchi
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.

Charles Saatchi
Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a rotting cow's head covered by maggots and swarms of buzzing flies may be pretty unsellable. Until the artist becomes a star. Then he can sell anything he touches.

Charles Saatchi
Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

Charles Saatchi
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
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
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.

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

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

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

Charles Saatchi
Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

Charles Saatchi