Quotes About Antiques

De ideale functie van een bibliotheek is om een beetje te lijken op de kraam van een bouquiniste, de ideale plek voor trouvailles.

Old books are leather-bound ghosts.

No they don't. Not if you go to antique fairs and do someone a favour and find a little emerald for a special small girl,' said Dad.

I am a flea market junkie! Every city I go to, I'll be sure to look up when and where the biggest and best markets are nearby.

These valuable thing produced in us a feeling of intimidation. We knew that no matter how far we got in life, we would never really be meant for such fineness, that the few expensive antiques we did have had fallen to us from a higher life and now condescended to live among us.

The walls were a deep, rich rose, a strong background for the paintings. She favored antiques, or reproductions that looked enough like the real thing to pass. Soft fabrics and sleek sculpture.

People are absolutely haunted by [history]. You can see it at the swap meets.

Everything would work out and she wouldn't have to tell Dane that the box full of ancient ivory penises was roaming freely about Kirkall Hall.

The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust.

Are you interested, by the way, in etchings? I have one or two here that are considered to be rather choice.

It is important to keep old things, he insisted, because it was through them alone that new things could be judged.

The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

I'm not a big fan of antiques shows or 'Cash In The Attic.' I don't care about the rubbish in your loft! I don't find it stimulating in any way.

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out.

Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

People often misuse the term 'Regency' to describe art or antiques dating from a vague period between the 1790s and the 1830s, but technically the period only lasted between 1811 and 1820.

I like digging around. I'm a real magpie. I used to raid the old music shops in the early '50s in Paris and Brussels. You could pick up some incredible and often valuable music for almost nothing back then.

I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.

I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

Lots of items that survive from the past are high-status, valuable things that people have treasured.

Flea markets are fun because they are the ultimate treasure hunt. Be open to the fact that you never know what you'll find. The most beautiful, quirky, funny, scary pieces may not have an intrinsic value.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.