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I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition.

From Charles Saatchi

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.

From Charles Saatchi

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

From Charles Saatchi

I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.

From Charles Saatchi

I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.

From Charles Saatchi

Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.

From Charles Saatchi

I have spent too long being able to manipulate the answers I want from market research to rely upon its findings any more than I do weather forecasts.

From Charles Saatchi