Collectors Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image “Collectors are happy people.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Collectors Happiness Happy people Inspirational People
I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves. — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
We're big believers that people can learn to collect through the eyes of great collectors. — Alexander Gilkes 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 the corpse… — Marthe Bibesco Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I loved to collect things. I am a collector. — Brandon Moreno Copy Share Image
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 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 a collection… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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 numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer… — Charles Fort Copy Share
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't want to sell to street art collectors, I want to sell to art collectors. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces. I had always in my… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share
... Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was something that… — Nick Gravenites Copy Share Image
I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with… — William McDonough 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 time give… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work. — Willie Stargell 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 people are… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion,… — Arne Glimcher 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 limit the… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
