Character Quote by Karel Capek

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

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

— Robert Doisneau

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

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

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

— Paul Mellon

Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.

— Julian Barnes

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

— Eli Broad

Collectors are happy people.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Jonathan Anderson

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I…

— Charles Saatchi

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on…

— Susan Sontag

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

— Michael Anthony