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Collecting is more than just buying objects.

— Eli Broad

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

— Paul Mellon

Collecting is my passion.

— Ursula Andress

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

— Ursula Andress

I collect toys.

— Mika

I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.

— Rachael Taylor

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

— Karl Lagerfeld

The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.

— Orhan Pamuk

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.

— David Elliott

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things, and then they'd get sick, and people die, and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories; I guess that would be it.

— Derek Cianfrance

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.

— Howard Hodgkin