I'm a collector. I think it's great for everybody. Artists like it, they answer positively. — Patrick Seguin Copy Share Image
“As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are… — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm a collector. I think every kid from where I'm from had a terrible passion for having to have… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors… — Paul Mellon 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
The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful,… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather… — Ernest West Basden Copy Share Image
It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I'm a collector, a tinkerer, and a tweaker, like a lot of people, and recording equipment is really easy to fetishize. — John Vanderslice Copy Share Image
I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am… — Ian Harvie Copy Share Image
The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences. — William Osler Copy Share Image
I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should… — Bill Dixon Copy Share Image
Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their… — Gavin Douglas Copy Share Image
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm not really an art collector - I'm more of a person who picks up things. I have pieces by people like… — Hiroshi Fujiwara Copy Share Image
Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
Abracadabra, thus we learn The more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, The less… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Despite the creations of new sections, secret intelligence activity remained mistrusted and neglected in military circles, although there were a few enthusiasts… — Clive Ponting Copy Share Image
Bill collectors and harassing phone calls is enough to motivate some people to become successful. Maybe the pain is not great enough… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
