Collectors Quotes · Page 4

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

— Louis Susman

Most collectors I know don't think of art as a business or as an investment.

— Norman Braman

San Francisco has always been a great city for art collectors.

— Larry Gagosian

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

— Robert Rauschenberg

I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.

— Robert Doisneau

I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl.

— Lily Allen

I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.

— Sonia Sanchez

“—that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—”

— Georges Rodenbach

I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles…

— Bryan Batt

I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly…

— John Lydon

I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy,…

— Philip Johnson

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

— Mary McCarthy

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

“As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the…

— Walter Benjamin

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions…

— Robert Payne

The Tax Collector's letters are invariably mimeographed, and all they say is that you still haven't paid him.

— William Saroyan

Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or…

— Michael Ayrton

This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming…

— Pope Francis

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

— Walter Benjamin

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

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

My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a…

— Claude Monet

I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos…

— Ransom Riggs

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

The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be,…

— Errico Malatesta

The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a…

— Anais Nin

This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of…

— Harold Evans

We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing…

— Jim Thompson

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the…

— Pablo Picasso

If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go…

— Jim Rohn

If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of…

— Shane Claiborne

“If it were not for collectors England would be full, so to speak, of rare birds and wonderful butterflies, strange flowers and…

— H.G. Wells

Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

— Walter Darby Bannard

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

— Mark Knopfler

I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.

— Mike Shinoda

The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.

— Walter J. Phillips

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

— Ben Eine

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

— Michael Kimmelman

“Weird old insect collectors are such a catch,” she says,”

— Nicola Rendell

One advantage of a solar collector in space: It would be some kind of origami thing that would unfold and be relatively…

— Stewart Brand