It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned. — James Lafferty 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
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 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 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
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
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
Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement… — Edward G. Robinson 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
A lot of my friends have been collectors, and I owe a lot to them. I'm always interested in sharing collections and… — Michael Dumontier Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My mother was being hounded by a debt collector over a debt that she didn't owe, and she eventually just paid it… — Jake Halpern Copy Share Image
Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up;… — Peter Medawar 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'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
I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors. — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only… — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to… — Micah Lexier Copy Share Image
The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? — Jesus Christ Copy Share Image
I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value.… — Oliver $ 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
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. — Edward G. Robinson Copy Share Image
The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
“Collectors wanted pictures of the items they'd gathered, both to form Catalina of the whole and to record individual favorites.” — Kim Todd 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
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight! — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those crazy collectors - I don't have a hundred watches. Only five or six. But I do like… — Mark Teixeira 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
