“—that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—” — Georges Rodenbach 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
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 shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves. — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
We're big believers that people can learn to collect through the eyes of great collectors. — Alexander Gilkes 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'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem… — Andrew Wyeth 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
Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
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 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
The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a… — Josh Turner Copy Share Image
Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was… — Adam Sandler 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
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
“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
Thus we see that the lot of the duck hunter is not a happy one. He is the child of frustration, the… — Ted Trueblood 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
There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers,… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
I love collecting things from auction - we Brits really are hoarders and collectors. — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization. — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
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