My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
There are lots of ways to design a workflow - for instance, some land surveyors book their notes by hand, and some… — Mark Mason Copy Share Image
The only problems I sometimes have is if I ask for a piece for a group show, if I ask for a… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I'm a collector of cartoons. All the Disney stuff, Bugs Bunny, the old MGM ones. It's real escapism, it's like everything's alright.… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
When a collector says, "You've got to educate me," or "What's a good investment?" then I don't know what to say. I… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Share your enthusiasm with the collector's enthusiasm for the work, and discover things together. Be nice and appreciative and at the same… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and… — Vincent Van Gogh 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
This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in ten thousand pounds of pennies he had collected over… — Tina Fey 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I… — Armand Hammer Copy Share Image
“Is this not the collector's exquisite pleasure, that his desire should know no bounds, should reach out into the infinite, should never… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
I own a few thousand snapshots, which is small by the standards of most collectors I know. I generally only buy photos… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
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