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 More Quotes by Charles Saatchi More Quotes From Charles Saatchi Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales? Charles Saatchi whales swimming people 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 decision advice giving I primarily buy art to show it off. Charles Saatchi shows art When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime. Charles Saatchi critics sublime writing If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people. Charles Saatchi luck criticism people 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 work-out people art I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored. Charles Saatchi waking wake-up art 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 gardening criticism art 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 genius different art 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 i-feel-like feel like art 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 sad work happy art 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 hate work romantic art Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for their giddily chic designer duplexes. Others bemoan art being treated as a commodity. But most of the bemoaning is because the art world is stuffed full of bemoaners, bemoaning about everything. Charles Saatchi some-people people world art 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 copy questions good i-can 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 best you stupid remember I spoil my children rotten and hope to leave them enough so they can do the same to theirs. Charles Saatchi leave enough hope children 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 service my-own hate people I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way. Charles Saatchi find stage theatre way 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 looking shopping clothes men Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich. Charles Saatchi being rich important business
