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  • There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.

    Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com
  • To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

    David Weinberger (2007). “Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder”, p.216, Macmillan
  • The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

    Art   Form   Consolation  
    Michael Kimmelman (2005). “The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa”, Penguin Press HC
  • There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I used to volunteer there, doing health and education work when I was younger and living in Egypt.

  • While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.

    Wisdom   Islamic   Self  
  • I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.

    Art   Thinking   Guy  
    Source: www.sfgate.com
  • Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to be a lover of songs, a listener of songs and a collector of songs. If you hear a song in a club that knocks you out or you hear an old recording of a great song you never knew existed, it does not diminish you to record it; it actually exalts you because you have brought a great song from obscurity to the ear of the public.

    Song   Writing   Advice  
  • A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

  • If you hear a good idea, capture it; write it down. Don't trust your memory. Then on a cold wintry evening, go back through your journal, the ideas that changed your life, the ideas that saved your marriage, the ideas that bailed you out of bankruptcy, the ideas that helped you become successful, the ideas that made you millions. What a good review-going back over the collection of ideas that you gathered over the years. So be a collector of good ideas for your business, for your relationships, for your future.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 31, 2013
  • Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much cholesterol and triglycerides...A collector is someone who is ready to devour the work of art that he wants to possess at all costs.

    Art   Cost   Want  
  • I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.

  • Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

    Today   Cop   Taxes  
  • I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

    William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr
  • Thus we see that the lot of the duck hunter is not a happy one. He is the child of frustration, the collector of mishap, the victim of misfortune. He suffers from cold and wet and lack of sleep. He is punished more often than rewarded. Yet he continues. Why? Because one great day-- and great days do come, days when the ducks are willing and the gun swings true-- repays him many fold for all the others.

  • Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

    Artist   Ideas   Demand  
  • I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us.

    War   Chaos   Crash  
    Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant -”, p.115, HarperCollins UK
  • I don't think I'm a collector. I think every kid from where I'm from had a terrible passion for having to have fresh kicks.

    Passion   Kids   Thinking  
    Source: www.nicekicks.com
  • On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging.

    Artist   Ideas   Water  
    Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.165, Vintage
  • Despite the creations of new sections, secret intelligence activity remained mistrusted and neglected in military circles, although there were a few enthusiasts like Baden-Powell, who went on foreign trips disguised as a butterfly collector and regarded spying as sport.

    Clive Ponting (1990). “Secrecy in Britain”
  • 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.

    Keys   World   Helping  
  • Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

    Heart   Play   Yesterday  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate.

  • Nobody can give you advice after you've been collecting for a while. If you don't enjoy making your own decisions, you're never going to be much of a collector anyway.

    Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press
  • I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.

    Smile   Sports   Jobs  
  • I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind.

    Book   Long   Mind  
  • I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.

    Source: www.heddels.com
  • She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique.

    Song: She Belongs To Me, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965
  • The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

  • 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.

    Source: www.aaa.si.edu
  • To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

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