Collecting – Quotes

Could we ever know

Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts? Gabrielle Roy

Dearest Charles– I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start… I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and … Read more

Meeting and talking to

Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession. Ernest West Basden

That which is not

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting. Ernest Rutherford

All science is either

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. Ernest Rutherford

[Freud’s] great strength, though

[Freud’s] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact… When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite … Read more

I’m a photographer and

I’m a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind. Erik Johansson

The music I play

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way. Elle King

I was meant to

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess. Elizabeth Wurtzel

The first thing I

The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps. Eli Broad