The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very…

In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade…

— Paul Mellon

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

— Mark Rothko

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine…

— Walter Benjamin

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret…

— Jerry Saltz

but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of…

— Laird Barron

He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not be afraid…

— Walter Benjamin

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in…

— Jeff Koons

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

... 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 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

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

— Kim Todd

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

— Ben Eine

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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