Quotes for All
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it’s principal, characteristic and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector, the soldier and … Read more
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
As a collector, you will discover that surrounding yourself with art can enrich not only your visual experiences, but instill a sense of vitality to your life and uplift your soul. Ernest West Basden
The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that’s become a banal trope of every second crime novel: the weirdo, fetishistic watcher/stalker/kidnapper/kidnapper of women or children. Emma Donoghue
A real collector does not sell. Eli Broad
My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn’t become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. Eli Broad
Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can’t live without it. Eli Broad
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization. Edward Hallett Carr
My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector’s zeal. Edward G. Robinson
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. Edward G. … Read more