Collectors Quotes
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I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.
William Gibson -
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.
Edward G. Robinson
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I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.
Lorne Michaels -
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
Aldrich Ames -
I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
Conservation is key to preserving many of the worlds natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
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Collectors are happy people.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.
Stephen Sondheim -
Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.
Jack White The White Stripes -
It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.
David Galenson -
There is a type of respect that we have for each other and a warm feeling that exists between dealers and collectors who have known each other for many years.
Norman Braman -
And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.
Gavin Douglas
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I don't want to sell to street art collectors, I want to sell to art collectors.
Ben Eine -
Although eBay is a fantastic tool for collectors who want to buy or sell, you really have to have knowledge of items before you embark.
Judith Miller -
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 -
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 -
I don't think fashion people know about my work. Some collectors find some of the work too intense.
Katherine Bernhardt -
I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.
Willie Stargell