I used to say, 'Are you kidding?' about some prices for collectibles. I don't anymore because anything that screams its era is collectible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.
I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
I love vintage and I shop vintage a lot because it's just such great value for money.
I love vintage, but it's so expensive now.
What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.
Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.
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.
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.
Collecting is more than just buying objects.
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