Top 181 Collectors Quotes & Sayings

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.

Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

The only people I don't answer are bill collectors.

As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.

We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.

Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.

Collectors are happy people.

I've seen numerous situations where collectors have taken more than the agreed-upon amount from someone's account once they gained access.

I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer - my version of him - that's in his collection.

Many debt collectors offer a lump sum option so ask. And if you get it, make sure it's in writing and you keep the payoff statement FOREVER.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic value.

The more horrific works came out of a feeling that everyone accepted my stuff too easily. I was deliberately trying to be antagonistic towards collectors and critics.

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.

As artists we need to stop making work only for gallery or museum walls, or the coffee tables of collectors.

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

I have a fan base who are collectors.

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

I don't want to sell to street art collectors, I want to sell to art collectors.

Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don't get it. Once they start to mingle with the collectors and learn that they are people who have achieved something who then expand into art, they change their minds.

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.

Most collectors I know don't think of art as a business or as an investment.

I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.

When Clinton said he was going to create 8 million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors.

San Francisco has always been a great city for art collectors.

I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections.

The itinerary of most antiquities from their source - tomb, temple, quarry - to the shelves of museums or private collectors is murky and often purposely concealed.

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

Debt collectors should not be able to call, email, or text you to the point of harassment.

For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.

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.

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.

In reality, it is the waste collectors, the nurses, and the cleaners whose shoulders are supporting the apex of the pyramid. They are the true mechanism of social solidarity.

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.

I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.

The members of the National Clandestine Service of the CIA are called the collectors of last resort. They are tasked to seek the truth when all other avenues of intelligence collection have failed.

I imagine witches to be people who sit around like my witty grandmother, people who are injustice collectors or humiliation collectors. I choose to imagine that's what a witch is. The reason witches are so evil is because they're so unhappy and so hurt.

Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.

There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.

We're big believers that people can learn to collect through the eyes of great collectors.

Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished.

Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art.

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.

I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.

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

Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.

Some collectors do but no, I don't look at watches as an investment.

Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.

I love collecting things from auction - we Brits really are hoarders and collectors.

I am more respectful of the parasocial relationship of myself and my fans than anything Damien Hirst does between himself and his collectors.