Collectors Quotes - Page 2

• I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Motivational, Artist, Thinking

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

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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.

  William Gibson

  Curves, Finance, Sells

  Source: www.heddels.com

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• Instagram has been around for what, maybe a couple of years? Already it has shut down some small blogs - it's a collector of others and those most followed. It's already a selection. I imagine this further selection will take place in the next two years. It's going to be very fast.

  Franca Sozzani

  Couple, Years, Two

  Source: wwd.com

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• Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don’t like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths.

  Jack White

  People, Musician, Records

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• The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Appreciation, Acquisition, Facts

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.111, Random House

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• I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

  Tom Wolfe

  Years, Numbers, Pieces

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• After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

  Terry Southern

  Adaptation

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• I'm not a good collector.

  Kurt Russell

  Source: collider.com

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• Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

  Frank Serpico

  Today, Cop, Taxes

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• An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

  Aldrich Ames

  Organization, Reliability, Information

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• I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received.

  Bill Dixon

  Letting Go, Player, Thinking

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• My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Mother, Ambition, Hands

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• I'm in a comic book fan. I have long boxes at home. I'm a comic book collector; I'm not joking. It's just the coolest thing ever.

  Tim Rozon

  Book, Home, Long

  Source: www.showbizjunkies.com

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• As a collector, you will discover that surrounding yourself with art can enrich not only your visual experiences, but instill a sense of vitality to your life and uplift your soul.

  Ernest West Basden

  Uplifting, Art, Soul

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• I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate.

  Ian Harvie

  Identity, Debate, Feels Right

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• I don't think fashion people know about my work. Some collectors find some of the work too intense.

  Katherine Bernhardt

  Fashion, Thinking, People

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008..

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• I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

  Luis Walter Alvarez

  Scientist, Stamps, Very Good

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• Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and passion of discovery, along with a heartfelt affection for those who keep alight the flame of our musical heritage.

  Lenny Kaye

  Passion, Journey, Discovery

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• The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Games, People

  Attributed in Wash. Post, 30 Nov. 1952. The Post article is quoting an article in Quick Magazine from the summer of 1951. According to a letter by William S. Rubin in the New York Times, 5 Jan. 1969, this is "a trumpery originated in Il Libro Nero published by Giovanni Papini in 1951."

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• If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.

  Damien Hirst

  Choices, Buying, Building

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• I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.

  Richard MacDonald

  Art, Years, Creating

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• Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.

  Jack White

  Art, Purchasing

  Jack White (2013). “Mystery of Making It: Reveals the Secrets of Marketing Art-How Artist Senkarik Sold the First Piece in 1980 and has Exceeded $7 Million in Sales”, p.16, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Insincerity, Tolerate

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• To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

  Corita Kent

  Artist, Connections, Juxtaposition

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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 them the hint that you're a winner so they believe they've made a good investment. It's simple common sense.

  Mark Kostabi

  Nice, Believe, Simple

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