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“I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.” quote by William Gibson — Download Open image

“I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.”

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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 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…

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The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

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I don't want to sell to street art collectors, I want to sell to art collectors.

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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…

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... Michael Bloomfield was the antithesis of a collector ... he didn't care how old a guitar was; all he wanted was something that…

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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…

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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…

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I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.

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Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion,…

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If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we limit the…

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