Collectors Quotes

• Collectors are happy people.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Happy People

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• The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Judging, Perfection, Degrees

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• The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Emotional, Levels

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• Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.

  Charles Saatchi

  Giving, Decision, Advice

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

  Walter Benjamin

  Memories, Passion, Borders

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.486, Harvard University Press

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• If you are collector, let other people share your pride and joy. Don't sprinkle your collection out of sight in a meaningless jumble. Notice how groups of small objects, when they are well arranged, become important and effective. Remember that repetition is a form of emphasis. Collect what you will, but see to it that you arrange your hobby to its best advantage.

  Dorothy Draper

  Pride, Sight, Small Objects

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• I think the collectors have made an enormous contribution, not only to the market but to painters themselves... These people that buy, that set standards, make everyone else itch to emulate.

  Philip Johnson

  Thinking, People, Made

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• For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Evil, Philosopher

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 1, 1932.

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• I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

  Michael Gambon

  Gun, Car, Stores

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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 of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.

  Charles Fort

  Lying, Data, Mad

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.35, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I'm a huge poster collector.

  Illeana Douglas

  Posters, Huge

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Quests, Occupation, May

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• I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

  Gary Oldman

  Guitar, Would Be, Fetch

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• What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Money, Differences

  Notebook, Dec. 1902

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• My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

  Boz Scaggs

  Parent, Lovers, Music Lover

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• My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

  Edward G. Robinson

  Uncles, Father, Black

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!

  Ronnie Wood

  Music, Art, Taken

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• Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

  Charles Saatchi

  Art, What Matters, Insignificant Things

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Missing You, Strong, Drinking

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• I don't think I'm a collector. I think every kid from where I'm from had a terrible passion for having to have fresh kicks.

  Pusha T

  Passion, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.nicekicks.com

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• The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He needs no one to give him an 'Art Education'; he is already qualified. He needs but to see pictures with his active mind, look into them for the things that belong to him, and he will find soon enough in himself an art connoisseur and an art lover of the first order.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Honesty, Integrity

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming collectors of antiques or novelties, instead of being shepherds living with 'the odor of the sheep.' This I ask you: Be shepherds, with the 'odor of the sheep,' make it real, as shepherds among your flock, fishers of men.

  Pope Francis

  Real, Men, Sheep

  Pope Francis (2016). “Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests”, p.12, BookBaby

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• I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to childhood - collecting used keys.

  Micah Lexier

  Keys, Childhood, Used

  "A Believer Excerpt From Sheila Heti’s Interview With Artist Micah Lexier". Interview with Sheila Heti, www.mcsweeneys.net. October 11, 2013.

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• I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Soul, Meat, My Soul

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• I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.

  Art Spiegelman

  Real, Book, Believe

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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