There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.
Charles SaatchiI 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 SaatchiI have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.
Charles SaatchiThe most abiding memory of visiting Lucian Freud's studio were his eyes, with the gimlet gaze of a Hooded Falcon. But he made for very relaxing company, quick to be amused at the world and his own peccadilloes. He enjoyed the seedy squalor of his rooms in a posh house in the most desirable part of Holland Park, and living up to his persona as an oddball bohemian.
Charles SaatchiLots 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 .
Charles Saatchi