Saatchi Art Quotes

#1. I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials. And I don't feel especially conflicted enjoying a Mantegna one day, a Carl Andre the next day and a brash student work the next.

Charles Saatchi

#2. Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

Charles Saatchi

#3. There is certainly a growing body of data that correlates investments in women with a country's general prosperity; a recognition that no country can get ahead if half its people are left behind.

Melanne Verveer

#4. 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

#5. I believe in the principle that if you have more competition, it will drive down the prices.

Rick Scott

#6. I hate her skinny thighs and her elitist attitude. i hope she's a dreadful bitch who makes you so miserable that you howl when you remember me.

Charlaine Harris

#7. If the Savior had come back to earth at the beginning of the fifth century A.D., I doubt whether he would have recognized the Christian Church as the one that claimed descent from that which he had established, so far had it gone astray.

Milton R. Hunter

#8. If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.

Charles Saatchi

#9. My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.

Charles Saatchi

#10. I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.

Charles Saatchi

#11. There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.

Rumi

#12. I primarily buy art to show it off.

Charles Saatchi

#13. 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.

Charles Saatchi

#14. I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.

Charles Saatchi

#15. I don't know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about.

Charles Saatchi

#16. Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard.

Charles Saatchi

#17. I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.

Charles Saatchi

#18. 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

#19. Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art.

Charles Saatchi

#20. Sure to prove indispensable for the study of Black Power.

Herb Boyd

#21. I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

Charles Saatchi

#22. Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it.

Arlene J. Chai