Ability Quote by Albert Hadley

If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it boring when…

— Thomas Koerfer

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down…

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

— Robert Doisneau

“Collecting expresses a free-floating desire that attaches and re-attaches itself—it is a succession of desires. The true collector is in the grip not of…

— Susan Sontag

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right…

— Howard Hodgkin

I don't believe in doing collections anymore.

— Tamara Mellon

There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died…

— Russell Lynes

We're big believers that people can learn to collect through the eyes of great collectors.

— Alexander Gilkes

What I can say is that there are some collections that come easily, and others that require more work.

— Stefano Gabbana

Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.

— Lydia Davis

I think I've always had an obsession with collecting, as most people do.

— Jonathan Anderson

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

— Paul Mellon