63 Quotes by Charles Saatchi

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.

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

I spoil my children rotten and hope to leave them enough so they can do the same to theirs.

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.

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified 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.

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.

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 .

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