Quotes from Charles Saatchi

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

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.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

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.

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.

I primarily buy art to show it off.

I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half of them. But do not dwell on cock-ups, I say. You don't learn by your mistakes - at least I don't - so best to blunder on making fresh ones.

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