Over Christmas I read My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. I enjoyed some of his replies to questions such as:
What’s the point of art?
“To stop our eyes from going into meltdown from all the rubbish TV and films we look at the rest of the time”
Do you agree painting is dead?
“For me and for people with good eyes who actually enjoy looking at art, nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting, whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday”
Are there not always great artists who go undiscovered?
“By and large, talent is in short supply … mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered”
