Collectors Quotes

178 quotes by 158 authors

I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. — Walter Benjamin
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics. — Anthony Bourdain
A real collector does not sell. — Eli Broad
My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was… — Eli Broad
I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly. — William Stafford
This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual; it is against the individual.… — Rajneesh
While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands. — Ibn Arabi
This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming collectors of antiques… — Pope Francis
Freedom is the quality of being free from the control of regulators and tax collectors. If I want to be free their control, I must… — Hans F. Sennholz
I have a three-piece suit. Iâ€™m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So Iâ€™m probably the killer. — Mads Mikkelsen
I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it. — Marcel Duchamp
Amanda Petrusichâ€™s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-â€˜em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and passion of discovery,… — Lenny Kaye
I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say… — Ian Harvie
Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their darlings,… — Robertson Davies
Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives… — Peter Medawar
My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around. — Boz Scaggs
The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media… — Frances O'Grady
Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be… — Charles Saatchi
I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is… — Sylvia Plath

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