63 Quotes by Charles Saatchi

Be the worst you can be: life's too long for patience and virtue.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?

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

I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.

I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition.

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.

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.