Collectors Quotes · Page 3

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

— Lucien Febvre

Some collectors do but no, I don't look at watches as an investment.

— J. J. Redick

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

— Edward Hallett Carr

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

— Walter Benjamin

Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

— Mark Knopfler

“—that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—”

— Georges Rodenbach

I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.

— Mike Shinoda

Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so…

— Hilary Mantel

I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.

— Willie Stargell

One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively…

— Stewart Brand

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions…

— Robert Payne

The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.

— William Saroyan

Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust…

— Jim Rohn

I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.

— Cleveland Amory

Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their…

— Hans F. Sennholz

My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a…

— Claude Monet

Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings,…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or…

— Michael Ayrton

This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming…

— Pope Francis

When I first walked into a church, I was judged heavily for my life, and how I had lived, and that's part…

— Heather Veitch

I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos…

— Ransom Riggs

And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of…

— Wangechi Mutu

I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who…

— Ray Bradbury

When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was…

— Mark Rothko

Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In the brief…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Thus we see that the lot of the duck hunter is not a happy one. He is the child of frustration, the…

— Ted Trueblood

“I am a book-collector, a proud avocationist in what Eric Quayle (wrongly) asserts to be the "least vicious" of hobbies (we are…

— Paul Theroux

Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in…

— Semir Zeki

Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a…

— Diane Setterfield

A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is…

— William Osler

“If it were not for collectors England would be full, so to speak, of rare birds and wonderful butterflies, strange flowers and…

— H.G. Wells

The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.

— Walter J. Phillips

I don't want to sell to street art collectors, I want to sell to art collectors.

— Ben Eine

“Weird old insect collectors are such a catch,” she says,”

— Nicola Rendell

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

— Michael Kimmelman

I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.

— Robert Doisneau

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

— Robert Rauschenberg

I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl.

— Lily Allen

I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.

— Sonia Sanchez