Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard.
Charles SaatchiBeing a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.
Charles SaatchiThe art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.
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 SaatchiIts obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. Its vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our carbon footprint, has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.
Charles Saatchi