Charles Saatchi Quotes

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

I believe in art.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

Paul Cummins is a genius. He's a true visionary.

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In this country we encourage 'creativity' among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow 'too much.' Well, Before the Revolution is too much and that is what is great about it. Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.

Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

A truly great artist has many talents.