"I may not be much good at most things, but if I didnt have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago."

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Source : Charles Saatchi (2012). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers”, p.201

Charles Saatchi

#Art Quotes #Years Quotes #May Quotes

“There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.”

Source : Quoted in Time magazine, December 8, 1930.
“You can die for your country. I'll live for mine.”
“I don't mean to cast a dark shadow on all your hopes and dreams, except of course I do, because that is who I am. I'm a dream ruiner.”
“I just do art because Iâ€™m ugly and thereâ€™s nothing else for me to do.”
“People don't need to become more aware of povertyâ€”they need to know how to end it,”
“Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.”
“The media has created this environment that is okay to say almost anything about somebody who is, you know, right of Jane Fonda. You know, if you are slightly conservative or even libertarian points of view, especially if you are persuasive and charismatic and funny and effective, you will get called the most appalling things.”
“Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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