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What you collect says so much about who you are.
Record collection, with all those lifetimes and desires rhymed and distilled into two or three minutes of a song.
Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.
Normal people have rock collections, shell collections, key ring collections and stamp collections. (The Captain had even known somebody with a letterbox collection.) But a people collection? That had to be the most bizarre one he'd come across. Not to mention the most unethical.
There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.
The most profound enchantment for the collector is the locking of individual items within a magic circle in which they are fixed as the final thrill, the thrill of acquisition, passes over them.
I don't know why I am in such a reminiscent mood except that spring and the reappearance of toads always awakens the old acquisitive instinct. The only thing that keeps me from starting a collection is the fact that no rule exists against it.
Taking photos is a form of collecting.
But with Celine, she managed to amass a collection of a thousand pieces, each one hand-selected for its historical value and beauty, and then turn her apartment into a masterpiece that you could sit back and enjoy. She wasn't just a collector, she was a curator.
I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.
Every time before a collection, I say, "I don't want it to come out. I want to cancel it. It's not good. I haven't achieved anything."
I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.
I collect books - a lot of books.
I don't have the feeling that I need to add a lot to my collection, because I have an incredibly wide range of things. This is a part of the secret of my things, that they are still valid. When I feel a need, I do something more.
When I create a collection, I approach it with a cinematic point of view-I am not designing clothes, I'm creating a world.
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.
Always my collections are made of different influences.
I don't collect anything. I collect people, I think. I'm very social and I like seeing a lot of people.
You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.
This is the strange undoing of a collection, of a house and of a family. It is the moment of fissure when grand things are taken and when family objects, known and handled and loved, become stuff.
I've enjoyed collecting. I've enjoyed art ever since - I'll tell you when - I went to Columbia. I went to the Met, and I saw Poussin's 'Rape of the Sabine Women', and it's this incredible, epic, great, great painting.
I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.
Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.
I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.
Collecting has always been in my blood.
I collect Hot Wheels. I collect glass. I collect coins. And I collect cards.
I've got a great collection of photography.
I love lists. Always have. when I was 14, I wrote down every dirty word I knew on file cards and placed them in alphabetical order. I have a thing about about collections, and a list is a collection with purchase. (Wired Magazine, "Step One: Make a List", October 2012)
No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.
I sold the collection because I finally understood what true love really meant. Tim had told me-and shown me-that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. - John Tyree
Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
I collect words
they are sweets in the mouth of sound.
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
If you're wondering if you're a collector, ask yourself two questions. Do I own too many records? Do my friends and family feel I own too many records? If your respective answers are No and Yes, you're a Collector.
Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.
I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.
When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself.
I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.
I have a merely ethical and moral relationship to collecting. Whereby I never collect things that I necessarily like. I collect things by young artists who don't have any money because I need to give them some money! Because I think that they should carry on whether I like it or not.
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.
I used to collect comic books. I had a substantial collection. I collect records also, but those have gone the way of the world.
I don't collect things per se, but I do pick up things as I go. Like, in my studio I have an old sewing machine from Germany that my dad gave me, and then something else that I got from a friend in India, and a piece of flooring from one of my shows.
Collectors Have A Troubling New Way To Get
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.
The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.
For inside him there are spirits, or at least little genii, which have seen to it that for a collector - and I mean a real collector, a collector as he ought to be - ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.
If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we limit the great potential for an understanding between collectors, curators and galleries.
It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.
I always wanted to create a collection inspired by sports. I never played sports, maybe that's why it intrigues me.
Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.
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.
There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.
Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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.
Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to get. So with collectors.
I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.
I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.
To collect photographs is to collect the world.
My wife, when I met her, she had a remarkable record collection. And they were all still in their sleeves! I couldn't believe it. She took care of her records. Rachmaninov, Beefheart. For me, most of my records were out of their sleeves and in a drawer somewhere. I married a record collection.
In the end, we are collected works.
I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Buddhas. I have a lot of them.
A collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed is, in fact, dead!
The collection under my name is an exciting opportunity to really express my own aesthetic and connect with a very different consumer.
I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value ...
My collections are a reflection of my personal style and interests. All the textiles, fabrics and patterns are of my personal choice.
I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.
What I collect? Interesting jobs. Always to my thrill and excitement, but ultimately to my exhaustion, I collect interesting jobs. If an interesting job comes along, I take it; that's why I do so many things. I'm lucky to be able to.
I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or book I wanted, so I have built up a big collection over the years.
I'm a real hoarder.
New Yorker, the collection would, in many ways, define us as a couple.
I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.
I'm a compulsive sneaker collector, mostly limited edition.
After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.
Instead of collecting things and staying in one space, I want to collect experiences.
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!
I'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.
I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
I collect ex-boyfriends
and more than five, at last count.
The world was full of collectors, scouring the earth for pieces of themselves.
My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.
I collected men with interesting names.
I am an archivist. I am a librarian. I collect words because words are the truest and longest-lasting craft in the world.
I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy.
I have learned so much making first collection that I am excited to use all of it towards making the next one even better! It's been an amazing learning curve and experience.
A lot of my friends have been collectors, and I owe a lot to them. I'm always interested in sharing collections and learning that way. I used to trade tapes a lot. I still have a few friends who I trade music with, but it's hard to find the time. I miss that.
There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
I love to collect modern art.
A real collector does not sell.
When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
I do remember how sexy my collection was after I first got involved with Stephan [Weiss]. That's one thing I don't have in my life now and ... if anything, that's one thing I would love.
With fashion, I barely finish one collection before I must start another.
Collections collect collectors. It doesn't work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness.
I believe that everyone collects. I think collecting is in our blood as humans.
Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.
Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.
I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.