If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars. — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
“—that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—” — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having. — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work. — Willie Stargell Copy Share Image
The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages,… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Share your enthusiasm with the collector's enthusiasm for the work, and discover things together. Be nice and appreciative and at the same… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of… — Obert Skye Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Debt collectors like to play on your emotions because they think you'll give in and do something you can't really afford to… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
Muhammad brought the promise that anyone could find fulfillment and everlasting life through allegiance to the one true God. The Buddah held… — John Green Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I don't want to sell to street art collectors, I want to sell to art collectors. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector. — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
I don't think fashion people know about my work. Some collectors find some of the work too intense. — Katherine Bernhardt Copy Share Image
There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image