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

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Source : Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

Charles Saatchi

#Taken Quotes #Genius Quotes #Mediocrity Quotes

“The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.”
“When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.”
“Emotions are raised in us, not only by the qualities and actions of others, but also by their feelings. I cannot behold a man in distress, without partaking of his pain; nor in joy, without partaking of his pleasure.”
“The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes than Reasonings, Hypotheses, and Deductions are; ... These are things we are sure of, so far as our Senses are not fallible; and which, in probability, have been ever since the Creation, and will remain to the End of the World, in the same Condition we now find them.”
“The best time of day for sex is anytime because it's sex.”
“As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it - it was written by very smart people, it's served us well for over two hundred years, and besides, we're not using it anymore.”
“I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.”
“I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.”

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