Welcome to Collectors Quotes, a haven for those who find beauty, wisdom, and inspiration in the words of collectors past and present. Whether you’re a passionate art collector, a devoted enthusiast of vintage memorabilia, or simply someone who appreciates the value of preserving history, this collection of quotes is tailor-made for you.
Throughout history, collectors have played a vital role in preserving the treasures of our past, from priceless artworks to rare artifacts. Their passion and dedication have not only enriched our cultural heritage but have also provided profound insights into the human condition. From the thrill of discovery to the satisfaction of curating a personal collection, the world of collectors is as diverse and fascinating as the items they cherish.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of quotes from renowned collectors, historians, and aficionados, offering unique perspectives on the art of collecting and the joys it brings. Whether you’re seeking motivation to start your own collection or simply looking to celebrate the love of collecting, these quotes are sure to resonate with you. So feel free to copy them, place them on an image, or enhance them with stylish fonts the possibilities are as endless as the treasures waiting to be discovered.
Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general. Gary Weiss
Some collectors do but no, I don’t look at watches as an investment. J. J. Redick
We always look at the ‘Fortune 500,’ and we say, men in power, but we don’t look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren’t properly supervised for safety hazards. Warren Farrell
Debt collectors should not be able to call, email, or text you to the point of harassment. Cori Bush
I have a fan base who are collectors. George Perez
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. Kehinde Wiley
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. Rutger Bregman
Serious collectors and art experts, among the world’s most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it. Peter Landesman
To me, all these things tell a story, and I find clothespin parts as interesting as ‘collectors’ furniture.’ Good pieces of Shaker furniture are interesting, but only so much. It is the other things and the personal effects that let me feel the Shakers. Ken Hakuta
I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy. Jerry Saltz
Debt collectors should be required to disclose the applicable statute of limitations in the body of their collection letters, in bold type. While it’s not illegal to dun a consumer for an old debt, it is illegal to sue for one. Gary Weiss
Debt collectors like to play on your emotions because they think you’ll give in and do something you can’t really afford to do. Most of them don’t care about you or your situation as long as they get some money. Dave Ramsey
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. Kehinde Wiley
In my ideal world, my next novel would have a first printing of, say, 2,500 hardcovers for reviewers, libraries, collectors, and autograph hounds. The publisher could print more copies if they get low. And simultaneously, or six weeks later, the book would be available in paperback. Christina Baker Kline
In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right. Paul Mellon
My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else’s in the field. Thomas Hoving
We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God’s free grace. Stanley Hauerwas
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. Jehane Noujaim
Cat lovers turn into cat collectors. Greg Kinnear
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. Allan Gurganus
Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists. Victor Pinchuk
A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors’ homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage. Jerry Saltz
I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn’t find me when he sold my book. He finally found me. Daniel Woodrell
There’s nothing normal about graduating with massive student debt, where you live in fear of predatory debt collectors and wage garnishers even as you are starting to live your life. Pramila Jayapal
We’re big believers that people can learn to collect through the eyes of great collectors. Alexander Gilkes
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
I hate it when people say that art shouldnt be a commodity. A lot of the rooms in museums, and all the Frieze week events, are there because of high-end art collectors. Grayson Perry
But we all have experiences of having a truly good time after watching a movie that is not thought-provoking, don’t we? I do too and I’ve been wishing to do that kind of movie. I think ‘Collectors’ is exactly that. Lee Je-hoon
New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures – from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete. Douglas Rushkoff
You have to be a little bit cautious when the market gets quite strong because there’s a tendency to anoint a genius artist every other day. That would be a word of advice for the collectors out there. Larry Gagosian
I’ve seen numerous situations where collectors have taken more than the agreed-upon amount from someone’s account once they gained access. Dave Ramsey
If you’re trying to learn how to collect art, the key is getting access to insider opinions, and we pride ourselves on working with the most relevant artists and the collectors with the most authoritative voices. Alexander Gilkes
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. Cindy Sherman
I’m not one of those crazy collectors – I don’t have a hundred watches. Only five or six. But I do like to wear a nice watch, especially if we’re on the road and I’m wearing a nice suit. Mark Teixeira
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. Theaster Gates
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
When it all started, record companies – and there were many of them, and this was a good thing – were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music… Now, record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. David Crosby
Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors – brilliant! Charles Krauthammer
It’s a little hard to go out there and spend your money on a home, car, or goods and services if your wages are being garnished to make debt collectors rich. Ana Kasparian
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. Howard Hodgkin
My parents are avid consumers of art, collectors of African American paintings, and have always gone to the theater. My mother has always been an activist, too. As long as I can remember, we were marching in lines. Lynn Nottage
I don’t like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they’re not very good scientists. They’re more like stamp collectors. Luis Walter Alvarez
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. Richard MacDonald
The only people I don’t answer are bill collectors. Jimmy Breslin
As artists we need to stop making work only for gallery or museum walls, or the coffee tables of collectors. Zoe Buckman
I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you’ll find. Robert Mueller
For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God’s story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played. Miroslav Volf
It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned. James Lafferty
My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around. Boz Scaggs
I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don’t believe that it’s a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It’s not the same thing. Art Spiegelman
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I like. I buy it to show it off in exhibitions. Then, if I feel like it, I sell it and buy more art. Charles Saatchi
I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work. Willie Stargell
The Chinese countryside has become a slave labour camp and dumping ground for every imaginable pollutant. The rural peasantry is being sucked dry by corrupt government tax collectors. Vivek Agnihotri
No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders. Gary Weiss
One winter, I went to Erfoud to research trilobites and got to know the quarries, the dealers, and the remote mining villages. They are not easy places to visit, and this was a completely unknown corner of the world economy: children slaving away on desert cliffs to furnish wealthy collectors in San Francisco. Lawrence Osborne
When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I’m being taken seriously. I’ve got highfalutin’ art collectors and everything! Ronnie Wood
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers. James Wolcott
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors… and miss. Robert A. Heinlein
I love collecting things from auction – we Brits really are hoarders and collectors. Jonathan Anderson
Dolls, perhaps more than any other object, demonstrate just how thin the line between love and fear, comfort and horror, can be. They are objects of love and sources of reassurance for children, coveted prizes for collectors, sources of terror and horror in numerous movies, television shows, books, and stories. Ellen Datlow
Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art. Charles Saatchi
San Francisco has always been a great city for art collectors. Larry Gagosian
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the ‘China thing.’ Arne Glimcher
I am more respectful of the parasocial relationship of myself and my fans than anything Damien Hirst does between himself and his collectors. Caroline Calloway
I’m also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I’m not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on. Richard MacDonald
Book collectors are thrill-seekers. It is a vegetarian hunt to be sure, without much exertion or risk, but the endorphin rush of the chase and the adrenaline high of the capture are much the same with first editions as I imagine they must be in the pursuit of 10-point stags, largemouth bass, or 20-foot waves at Maverick’s. Jacob Weisberg
The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain’s draconian union laws – already among the toughest in Europe – harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement. Frances O’Grady
Most collectors I know don’t think of art as a business or as an investment. Norman Braman
I come from a family of compulsive collectors, and my first memories are really all about collecting. I remember visiting flea markets with my mother or my grandmother – she goes to local ones around Varese, Italy, every Sunday when she’s at home. Margherita Missoni
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. Peter Landesman
Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors… But I think they’re quite positive when they’re dynamic and do something new. Peter Thiel
Then I began filming a world that I knew quite a bit about. I was peripherally involved in that world much of my life – the exotic reptile world, the collectors, the dealers, the smugglers. Eric Goode
My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies. Louis Susman
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? Jesus Christ
Dealers claim that women artists are not as salable as men, that they are a poor investment. We know that there are few women art collectors, a fact which may have an impact on the market. Agnes Gund
It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don’t apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government. Cory Booker
If you’re doing something like scheduling utility payments to come through your debit card or out of your personal checking account, that’s perfectly fine. But there are much safer ways to handle situations with debt collectors. You can send a money order overnight, or wire the cash to them. Dave Ramsey
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. Will Hurd
I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we’re going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity. William McDonough
During the struggles, the one thing I remember was the continued support from my wife. I was running up phone bills and did all kinds of things to begin the process. When times were bad we bought food with credit cards. We had bill collectors calling. We maneuvered through this together. David Steward
I think I have more stamps in my passport than most stamp collectors have in their collections. John Rhys-Davies
When it all started, record companies – and there were many of them, and this was a good thing – were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music. David Crosby
I don’t want to sell to street art collectors, I want to sell to art collectors. Ben Eine
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. Kirk Hammett
Debt collectors should not have the right to endlessly harass borrowers. Jake Auchincloss
Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you’re collecting something you are supposedly serious about. Ricky Jay
I have no distributor… it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received. Bill Dixon
