Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…

— Charles Fort

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a…

— Susan Sontag

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Ben Eine

“Collectors wanted pictures of the items they'd gathered, both to form Catalina of the whole and to record individual favorites.”

— Kim Todd

I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to…

— Jacques Lipchitz

... Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was something that…

— Nick Gravenites

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with…

— William McDonough

Share your enthusiasm with the collector's enthusiasm for the work, and discover things together. Be nice and appreciative and at the same time give…

— Mark Kostabi

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

— Willie Stargell

There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are…

— Michael Craig-Martin

Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion,…

— Arne Glimcher

“Collectors Have A New, Troubling Way To”

— Anonymous

If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we limit the…

— Theaster Gates

The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust…

— Steve Martin