Collectors Quotes - Page 3

• Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation.

  Michael Ayrton

  Art, Metaphor, Depiction

  Michael Ayrton (1971). “The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts”

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• People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but a piece of the artist.

  Toni Onley

  Artist, People, Pieces

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• I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.

  Scott Kahn

  Country, Wall, Done

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• My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces. My own art is either on exhibition or owned by other people!

  Robert Bateman

  Art, School, People

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• To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.

  Thomas Hoving

  Art, Appreciate, Experts

  Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

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• Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.

  James Wolcott

  Children, People, Alcohol

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• Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don't get it. Once they start to mingle with the collectors and learn that they are people who have achieved something who then expand into art, they change their minds.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, Kids, People

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• It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Wall, Pride

  BEN SHAHN (1957). “THE SHAPE OF CONTENT”

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• I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the elemental quality.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Quality, Clients, Elementals

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• Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

  Joe Shuster

  Artist, Delight, Pages

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• I was a coin collector.I didn't know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn't aware of what was cool. My dad wasn't around so he couldn't shake me and say, 'Drop the coin collecting bit. It's not where you want to go.' So, that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had it figured out for myself.

  Adam Sandler

  Dad, Thinking, Skateboarding

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• I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.

  John Petrucci

  Guitar, Vintage, Yeah

  Source: www.rockbook.hu

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• There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Doe, Use

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.335, University of Alabama Press

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• I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.

  Adam Foulds

  Book, Long, Mind

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• Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, People, Lucky

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• The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Art, Form, Consolation

  Michael Kimmelman (2005). “The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa”, Penguin Press HC

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• To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

  David Weinberger

  Dust, Metadata

  David Weinberger (2007). “Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder”, p.216, Macmillan

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• The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.

  Bill Walton

  Book, Passion, Avid

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.

  Jeff Koons

  Business, Media, People

  Modern Painters, Volume 2, 1989.

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• I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.

  Anjelica Huston

  Thinking, Bears, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.

  Jim Rohn

  Memories, Ideas, Information

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 26, 2014

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• If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of these peculiar people. Then we can look into the eyes of a centurion and see not a beast but a child of God, and then walk with that child a couple of miles. Look into the eys of tax collectors as they sue you in court; see their poverty and give them your coat. Look in to the eys of the ones who are hardest for you to like, and see the One you love. For God loves good and bad people.

  Shane Claiborne

  Children, Couple, Teaching

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.95, Harper Collins

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• A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.

  William Osler

  Book, Character, Men

  Sir William Osler, Osler Library (1969). “Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science”, p.10, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

  William Stafford

  Butterfly, Discovery, Experience

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do it myself. So I instituted a suit against the city of Baltimore demanding that the city assessor be specifically ordered to assess the Church for its vast property holdings in the city, and that the city tax collector then be instructed to collect the taxes once the assessment has been made.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Assessment, Cities, Church

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