Collectors Quotes · Page 6

Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector…

— Jim Butcher

Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

— Mary McCarthy

Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.

— Victor Pinchuk

The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a…

— Emma Donoghue

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

— Jerry Saltz

I'm a millionaire, I guess, but I'm just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call…

— Ted Turner

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and…

— Kirk Hammett

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect…

— Austin Kleon

The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs…

— Paul Rand

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with…

— Marcel Duchamp

There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I…

— Jehane Noujaim

Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to…

— Arthur Davison Ficke

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

I got ex's all across the country and I owe everybody in town. I got bill collectors a callin' me up, and…

— George Strait

We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.

— Walter Benjamin

New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.

— Douglas Rushkoff

Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don't get…

— Mark Kostabi

I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian.…

— James Mangold

Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show…

— Robertson Davies

I love collecting things from auction - we Brits really are hoarders and collectors.

— Jonathan Anderson

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his…

— Walter Benjamin

The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts…

— Frances O'Grady

Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is…

— Ricky Jay

One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s.…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages,…

— Steven Levy