#collector

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. ↗

— Mark Twain

#collector #difference #only #skin #takes

I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector. ↗

— Mike Shinoda

#collector #could #guess #i #like

Being in love is like being lit on fire and having your loved one morph into a marshmallow as she runs to embrace you. But not being in love feels so much worse, possibly like being a tax collector. Actually, nothing compares to the lowliness of a tax collector.
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— Jarod Kintz

#hug #irs #lit-on-fire #love #marshmallow

My archive project is a multiedged sword. It is something I love doing, but it raises some questions about my motives in doing it. A writer accused me of building my archives just to further my own legend, whatever that is. I hope you don't believe that. What a shallow existence that would be! I remember reading that article saying that about me. It pissed me off. It's my life, and I am a collector. I collect everything: cars, trains, manuscripts, photographs, tape recordings, records, memories and clothes, to name a few. The fact that I want to create a chronological history of my recordings and supporting work is proof positive that I am an incurable collector, confronted with an amazingly detailed array of creations that I have painstakingly rat-holed over the years. ↗

— Neil Young

#dreams

Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to get. So with collectors. ↗

— Vincent Starrett

#men

I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt. ↗

— Phil Collins

#belt #bullet #collector #colonel #day

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#being #bill #catholic #children #collectors

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. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#been #collection #collectors #demands #energy

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important. ↗

— James Caan

#being #collector #does #garbage #honestly

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#about #admirers #basis #between #collectors