Babble
Babble
Author(s):
Charles Saatchi
Publication Date: 04 March, 2012
Available in all formats
Publisher: Booth-Clibborn Editions
ISBN: 9781861543516
ISBN: 9781861543516
Price: INR 579.99
Description
Table of contents
A book of essays, accompanied by illustrations, that give a revealing insight into the forthright and often controversial views of Charles Saatchi on a wide-ranging number of topics.
Description
A book of essays, accompanied by illustrations, that give a revealing insight into the forthright and often controversial views of Charles Saatchi on a wide-ranging number of topics.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Child abuse? Guilty on all counts.
- Your last meal on Death Row.
- God only knows. Have we failed Him, or has He failed us?
- How nuts is your shrink?
- My love affair with Orson Welles.
- Politicians are not hypocrites.
- The hideousness of the art world.
- Green with vanity.
- Growing old is better than not.
- Smoking is a dying art.
- What would Turner do?
- Socializing for party duds.
- Are museums fooling the public, or themselves?
- Would you rather keep fit, or keep alive?
- Love may be blind, but marriage is an eye-opener.
- Take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
- Good is the enemy of great?
- Was Rothko closer to God than us?
- The Beatles didn’t create Beatlemania. It was Franz Liszt.
- Could you draw an accurate map of Europe from memory?
- The jet set have flown away.
- Advertising is easy money for school dropouts.
- Lucky for me, there’s no justice in this world.
- Being thick is no obstacle to being a successful artist.
- Lobbying for beginners.
- The poorer you are at poker, the richer you are in friends.
- I miss the Mafia.
- War doesn’t determine who’s right, war determines who’s left.
- Is the theatre clapped out?
- Your tour guide to artist studios.
- Even vegetarians eat cellulose.
- Crippled by cliché.
- People don’t spit at women wearing leather.
- This is no time to make new enemies.
- There are worse writers than me, published every day.
- If it can’t be explained by science, try a séance.
- Art fairs are not fair to art.
- Too many cock-ups to remember, but one I never forget.
- Is good luck or bad luck passed on genetically?
- Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
- Ancient Romans didn’t throw-up their food in vomitoria.
- It takes a brave man not to be a hero in the Red Army.
- Having the memory of a goldfish is probably better than having mine.
- There is no future living in the past.
- Modern art can make you sick.
- Man bites mosquito.
- Not all conspiracy theories can be crackpot, can they?
- Is it only perverts that download sex filth on to their computers?
- Seven Deadly Sins vs. Seven Heavenly Virtues.
- I am not as old as I look.
- Are children today more advanced than we were?
- What’s the best age to become an art star? 4? Or 94?
- It isn’t business. It’s just personal.
- Painting is a blind man’s profession.
- What is the most painful memory you have?
- London’s Olympics — best enjoyed abroad.
- Interesting facts to bore a bore with.
- which is the worst phobia, fear of spiders or fear of cocktail parties?
- Knowing yourself well, would you choose you as a friend?
- Do you have a toilet face?
- Isn’t everybody schizophrenic, or is it just me?
- Love means forever having to say you’re sorry.
- The sword is mightier than the pen.
- Copyright