Quotes About Collection

I collect art books. I have hundreds and hundreds of them and they get me to start hearing things. Sometimes people look at them, but I find that visual art gets me listening, gets me hearing things.

I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.

In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

I primarily buy art to show it off.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

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

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview.

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.

I collect a lot of art.

Books are my one luxury. I have a lot of large coffee-table-size art books, in the shelves above my bed, about people like Warhol, Basquiat and Velasquez.

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

I'm collector of stuff that people make with their brain. I keep them in little jars and I take them out and play with them sometimes too. The stuff, not the people.

Because that's what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It's not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that's where it might eventually be displayed. It's a page.

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In 1974, the basin—really a collection of several different giant oil fields—reached its peak, providing almost a quarter of total U.S. oil supplies.7

Bill Casey called her the next morning to say he wanted her to bid on the two paintings at Christie's, to start his collection. His wife had liked them too, when he showed her the images. They established a maximum price she could bid up to. He sounded very excited, and she was happy for him. This was a major step, and a big investment

Then he got more books. He saved all the books.

The ability to leverage that thinking with good collection devices that are always at hand is key to increased productivity.

When I saw what was in there I felt like I had happened upon a treasure trove. Books! I pulled a goodly number of them out

Everything should collect something...it just made you feel more alive and connected to the world.

I'm a person who can take on the guises of people I meet. I'm a collector, and I collect personalities and ideas.

Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.

Every month when the bills came in, there was trouble. Mother seemed to have no great extravagances. But she loved pretty things. She had a passion for china, for instance. She saw hundreds of beautiful cups and saucers that it was hard to walk away from and leave. She knew she couldn't buy them, and mustn't, but every so often she did. No one purchase seemed large by itself, but they kept mounting up, and Father declared that she bought more china than the Windsor Hotel.