Top 248 Collector Quotes & Sayings

Art Collector, I think he's a very good horse.

To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

I'm not a collector.

I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.

I'm a collector of designer backpacks.

I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.

I've been an avid collector since I was a child.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores. Other times I have joys, when unexpectedly coming upon an outrageous story that may not be altogether a lie, or upon a macabre little thing that may make some reviewer of my more or less good works mad. But always there is present a feeling of unexplained relations of events that I note, and it is this far-away, haunting, or often taunting, awareness, or suspicion, that keeps me piling on.

He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.

I'm not a guitar collector. I own some guitars because I play.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.

I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl.

I'm a collector. I think it's great for everybody. Artists like it, they answer positively.

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

I'm a huge pin collector.

Vinyl has gotten to the point where it's exclusively for the collector, I guess.

I'm a kooky collector and own a couple of hundred guitars.

The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.

It's great not to be a collector.

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in mind' for this work. The artist then need not bother with producing the work, and therefore need not be worried about being dis-satisfied. All he or she needs to do is to sell it to a collector. The collector will have the guarantee that the artist thought about the work, even if momentarily, and therefore be satisfied.

The vast majority of artists worldwide are unrepresented, disenfranchised or otherwise don't have an opportunity to sell or have their work shown. Giving those artists access to the collector community, expanding the collector community and giving artists a chance to be discovered is the goal of iStockphoto.

Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once. "Elvii?" Marcone inquired. "The plural could be Elvises, I guess," I said. "But if I say that too often, I start muttering to myself and calling things 'my precious,' so I usually go with the Latin plural.

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

I'm a stuffed rabbit collector.

I'm a huge poster collector.

I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.

I am not a collector of deserts!

I guess I always have been a collector.

I've been a fan and collector of Lucie Rie for years.

I've always been a collector at heart.

I was an avid Pokemon card collector.

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

I've always been a great collector and lover of cookbooks.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

I'm a compulsive sneaker collector, mostly limited edition.

I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer.

To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves.

There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

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.

A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.

I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.

Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

I'm not a good collector.

I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.

I used to be a huge collector, and my big thing was stickers.

She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique.

A real collector does not sell.

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to childhood - collecting used keys.

I'm a collector of everything.

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

My mum is a big collector of art.

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.