Top 68 Saatchi Quotes
#1. I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.
Eli Broad
#3. All media owners want to attract advertising revenue. Google is no different.
Maurice Saatchi
#4. In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It's the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.
Maurice Saatchi
#5. It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.
Maurice Saatchi
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#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. Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.
Maurice Saatchi
#12. America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
Maurice Saatchi
#13. Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.
Maurice Saatchi
#14. 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
#15. 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
#17. It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our 'carbon footprint', has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.
Charles Saatchi
#18. There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.
Charles Saatchi
#19. 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
#20. If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases,
there's something wrong with your argument.
Maurice Saatchi
#21. Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.
Maurice Saatchi
#22. I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half of them. But do not dwell on cock-ups, I say. You don't learn by your mistakes - at least I don't - so best to blunder on making fresh ones.
Charles Saatchi
#24. The Tories win elections when they lead on economic competence.
Maurice Saatchi
#25. The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.
Maurice Saatchi
#26. I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.
Charles Saatchi
#27. 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
#28. Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.
Charles Saatchi
#29. I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.
Maurice Saatchi
#30. Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.
Maurice Saatchi
#31. Be the Worst You Can Be: Life's Too Long for Patience and Virtue
Charles Saatchi
#33. I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.
Charles Saatchi
#34. Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.
Charles Saatchi
#35. Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you. They can give a clear answer to what she 'stood for.'
Maurice Saatchi
#36. 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
#37. I don't like clothes shopping and trying on outfits in stuffy cubicles in men's shops, looking hideous in the wrap-round mirrors, is something I attempt as seldom as possible.
Charles Saatchi
#38. 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
#39. Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?
Charles Saatchi
#40. When a company owns one precise thought in the consumer's mind, it sets the context for everything and there should be no distinction between brand, product, service and experience.
Maurice Saatchi
#41. I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.
Charles Saatchi
#42. There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising.
Maurice Saatchi
#43. 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
#44. I spoil my children rotten and hope to leave them enough so they can do the same to theirs.
Charles Saatchi
#45. 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
#46. My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
Charles Saatchi
#47. If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.
Maurice Saatchi
#48. By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Charles Saatchi
#49. 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
#51. Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.
Maurice Saatchi
#52. Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.
Maurice Saatchi
#53. 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
#55. 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
#56. Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.
Charles Saatchi
#57. If, like me, you have many reasons to be less than secure and self-assured, and like me, you are far from stable even on your best days, don't for a moment imagine a psychotherapist will be of more help than a physiotherapist.
Charles Saatchi
#58. I have spent too long being able to manipulate the answers I want from market research to rely upon its findings any more than I do weather forecasts.
Charles Saatchi
#59. Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.
Maurice Saatchi
#60. Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.
Maurice Saatchi
#61. Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.
Maurice Saatchi
#62. I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.
Charles Saatchi
#64. 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
#65. If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.
Charles Saatchi
#66. Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.
Maurice Saatchi
#67. When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.
Charles Saatchi
#68. I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.
Charles Saatchi
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