Collecting Quote by Paul Mellon Download Open image “Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.” — Paul Mellon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Collecting Creeps Sort Thing Up You
I think I've always had an obsession with collecting, as most people do. — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point. — Michael Anthony 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
Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“Collecting expresses a free-floating desire that attaches and re-attaches itself—it is a succession of desires. The true collector is in the grip not of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a… — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in… — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas. — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life. — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece. — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being. — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good. — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience. — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade… — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in photographs, collecting them not systematically but randomly. They get lost, then turn up again. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two… — Henry Mancini 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… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
My real first job was delivering newspapers with I was 15. I would ride my bike around and chuck papers at people's houses. The… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was… — Alan Ritchson Copy Share Image
I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in my bed,… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Instead of collecting things and staying in one space, I want to collect experiences. — Kesh Copy Share Image
I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962. — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes. Doing a little at… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started.… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
