Collecting Quotes

“I collect snow globes. I have a collection of about 1,500.”

“A man who collects stamps is a philatelist. A man who collects coins is a numismatist. A man who collects posters is a shit.”

“To be a collector is to be an historian of a sort.”

“I've always been a collector. I'm a hoarder and a collector.”

“I've been a collector of Chicano art for over 25 years. I have the largest private collection of Chicano art in the world.”

“To collect photographs is to collect the world.”

“There's a fine line between being a collector and a hoarder.”

“The book-lover is a collector, and his collection is not a mere accumulation of things, but a selection of friends.”

“A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't just cost money; they take up space.”

“I'm a big collector of baseball memorabilia and I've got a lot of that.”

“You don't just buy a picture. You buy the artist's life, his soul, his everything.”

“I'm just a pack rat who's accumulated some things that are considered art.”

“It's well known that I'm a junkaholic. I'm fascinated by junk.”

“The list is the thing.”

“I was not a scholar. I was a businessman. I was a predator. I was a creator. I was a destroyer. I was all of these things. But above all, I was a collector.”

“My jewelry is a part of me. I've been collecting it for many years.”

“Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

“I've always been an obsessive collector of things.”

“When I see a Rembrandt, I want to have it.”