Quotes About Ownership

I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

I still have a lot my Disney store art left and if I ever run out I'll just redraw it, because it will still be my original art and as a freelancer I own it.

I've never really dreamed of owning a home. I don't think you go into the arts and also dream of owning a home.

If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.

I primarily buy art to show it off.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

I've collected Andy Warhol art for years now I have two portraits of myself done by Steve Kaufman.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

The internet is intimate. Everybody collects the art on the internet, everybody owns the art and enjoys it only for their self, completely selfishly.

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it.

It just goes to show, never say never, or the next thing you know, you'll be doing what you said you never would, owning a dog you swore you didn't want and walking (or carrying) a tiny, totally enchanting little dog on a rhinestone-studded pink leash.

You can't lose your identity unless you give it up. No one can take it from you

bag on a strap over her shoulder that she had owned since she was nineteen. But somehow

now, in his country, and in her mind, those stars belonged to

If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.

The apogee of Progressive reforms came with the election of Woodrow Wilson in 1912. Wilson noted in his 1913 book, The New Freedom, "If monopoly persists, monopoly will always sit at the helm of government. I do not expect to see monopoly restrain itself. If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

the prime determinant of why agricultural productivity—agricultural output per acre—is so low in many poor countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, has little to do with soil quality. Rather, it is a consequence of the ownership structure of the land and the incentives that are created for farmers by the governments and institutions under which they live.

I know who the demon thief is - it's me!

Why don't you lift the end?" said Alf. "It's me back, Alf," complained Mack. "You know how it troubles me." "No more than mine troubles me," said Alf. "But I said it first," said Mack.