Best Collectors Words
178 Collectors quotes by 157 unique authors
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The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
— Walter J. Phillips
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The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.
— Michael Kimmelman
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Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
— Robert Genn
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The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even…
— Robert Genn
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Share your enthusiasm with the collector's enthusiasm for the work, and discover things together. Be nice and appreciative and at the same time give them…
— Mark Kostabi
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Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don't get it. Once they…
— Mark Kostabi
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My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces.…
— Robert Bateman
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Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely…
— Charles Fort
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A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case…
— William Osler
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I've become a collector of stories about unlikely returns: the sudden reappearance of the long-lost son, the father found, the lovers reunited after forty years.…
— Karen Thompson Walker
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Bill collectors and harassing phone calls is enough to motivate some people to become successful. Maybe the pain is not great enough yet for you…
— Jon Jones
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If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your…
— Jim Rohn
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I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears…
— Anjelica Huston
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Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.
— Alice Neel
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Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they…
— Lorne Michaels
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I'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've…
— Phil Collins
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
— Robertson Davies
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No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.
— Tom Felton
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A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's…
— Kirk Hammett
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Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This…
— David Icke
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Cat lovers turn into cat collectors.
— Greg Kinnear
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Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!
— Charles Krauthammer
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