Collectors Quotes - Page 9

• I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something of his.' The people who buy my art put a little more thought into it than that.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Art, Thinking, Museums

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• I got ex's all across the country and I owe everybody in town. I got bill collectors a callin' me up, and lawyers trying to track me down.

  George Strait

  Country, Reality, Track

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• I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.

  James Mangold

  Book, Character, Kids

  "'The Wolverine': New film cuts deep into Hugh Jackman hero" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. January 08, 2013.

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• I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Rocks, Car, Hammers

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• Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.

  Victor Pinchuk

  Real, Artist, Financial

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• I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Night, Long

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• My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Mean, Giving

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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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 mind that I was collecting for learning.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Art, Greatness, Expression

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• You will face boredom and frustration your entire career as artists. You will be very frustrated seeking a voice/style that collectors can connect with. Once you accomplish that voice/style people are clamoring for, you will become bored doing it.

  Jack White

  Artist, Frustration, Careers

  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.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

  John Lydon

  Car, Nonsense, Reason

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• The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.

  Josh Turner

  Son, Knives, Fans

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• New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, Self, Google

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• Abracadabra, thus we learn
  The more you create, the less you earn.
  The less you earn, the more you're given,
  The less you lead, the more you're driven,
  The more destroyed, the more they feed,
  The more you pay, the more they need,
  The more you earn, the less you keep,
  And now I lay me down to sleep.
  I pray the Lord my soul to take
  If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake.

  Ogden Nash

  Sleep, Soul, Needs

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.

  Karel Capek

  Character, Doe, Pieces

  Karel Capek, M. Weatherall, R. Weatherall (1996). “War with the Newts”, p.166, Northwestern University Press

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• And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of my mind, which is my visual work. I've found collectors who are willing to put money down to live with my work. So I can't criticize the whole mechanism. But I can criticize it as an artist, in spite of the fact that I benefit from it. And there are problems with it.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Artist, Dna, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

  Robert Crumb

  Dollars, Records, Artwork

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Some of the wealthy collectors have paid lots of money for artwork that I already did, but I didn't do it with the intention of catering to them. I think part of the reason my work is attractive to people like that is because it doesn't cater to them.

  Robert Crumb

  Thinking, People, Reason

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• I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Art, Ideas, Creating

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Sports, Father, Passion

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.

  Jim Rohn

  Memories, Writing, Ideas

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• This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed civilians by British paratroopers. We interviewed 500 people for our report, and not one of them could give us a total picture of what was happening. It was like the Rashomon effect multiplied a million times. For a website or even a newspaper to be a collector of information flow is not the highest form of journalism.

  Harold Evans

  Sunday, Editors, Information Flow

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust in paper money: it makes no sense when you really think about it. New artistic images are so vulnerable to opinion that it wouldn't take much more than a whim for a small group of collectors to decide that a contemporary artist was not so wonderful anymore, was so last year.

  Steve Martin

  Art, Thinking, Years

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• I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!

  Rex Stout

  Book, Stories, Letters

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I." by Sandra Schmidt in Life magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.

  Pharrell Williams

  Art, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• It's nice that all the composers have said that nobody interprets a lyric like Fred Astaire. But when it comes to selling records I was never worth anything particularly except as a collector's item.

  Fred Astaire

  Nice, Records, Selling

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

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