Impulse Quote by Michael C. McMillen

The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums.…

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Jonathan Anderson

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

— Eli Broad

I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing…

— Jason Wu

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 don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things and then they'd get sick and people die and then…

— Derek Cianfrance

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of…

— Howard Hodgkin

If you're going to collect things because you think they have value, then don't collect. For me, you have to be obsessed, and there…

— Jonathan Anderson

My Picassos and Ferraris - those are kind of just toys. Those aren't the things that matter. What matters in the car collecting or…

— Les Wexner

I have always had the feeling that other people are too stupid to discover interesting things. That's why I do it myself. I think…

— Georg Baselitz

It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.

— Antony Gormley

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

— Paul Mellon