Quotes About Collectors

Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it.

Collectors wanted pictures of the items they'd gathered, both to form Catalina of the whole and to record individual favorites.

that exquisite sensual pleasure of collectors, who are a tactile species—

I hate it when people say that art shouldnt be a commodity. A lot of the rooms in museums, and all the Frieze week events, are there because of high-end art collectors.

Everyone has a bookplate these days, and the collectors are after it. The fool and his bookplate are soon parted. To distribute one's ex libris is inanely to destroy the only significance it has, that of indicating the past or present ownership of the volume in which it is placed.

I've seen numerous situations where collectors have taken more than the agreed-upon amount from someone's account once they gained access.

I am a reporter, a leech, a merchant of misery. Bad things are good for us reporters. We are body collectors of sorts.

The only thing left was a small cache of emergency money which I'd steadfastly refused to touch. I'd been saving it to use on orthopedic reconstruction after the bill collectors broke my knees.

The American's force and nervous energy fascinated Lord Emsworth. As for Mr. Peters, nothing like the earl had ever happened to him before in a long and varied life. Each, in fact, was to the other a perpetual freak show, with no charge for admission. And if anything had been needed to cement the alliance it would have been supplied by the fact that they were both collectors.

What really transcends our understanding is the mechanism that permits these oscillations of abstract field quantities to carry energy. We know this is true; our relevant equations say so, and the solar energy collectors prove it. A photoelectric cell registers at this instant an energy that left the Sun, in the form of light, some eight minutes ago. Travelling across space, this light did not lose its energy; rather, it is part of the energetic excitations within empty space.

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

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.

I am a book-collector, a proud avocationist in what Eric Quayle (wrongly) asserts to be the least vicious of hobbies (we are quite savage). We collectors are puzzled and often piqued unpleasantly by the common, absurd notion whereby we are only a pack of myopic, semi-crazed old pedants fretting over a book's colophon, dull dogs full of humorless zeal and no conversation, who suck our fingers free of pounce.

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

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!

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.

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

I want to have different Ferraris for different Ferraristi. We have a lot of parallel activities that can increase revenues without being obliged to produce more cars.

at any time of the day, corduroy is a highly stressful fabric. Rent collectors wear it. Tax collectors, too. History teachers add leather elbow patches.