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Collecting
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“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.”
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“The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.”
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“What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?”
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“Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.”
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“Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.”
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“... the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring — or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps — lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.”
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“You spend the first part of your life collecting things, she said, and the second half getting rid of them.”
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“... collections are amusing only in the making; afterwards they are like sporting prints without the sport. The sons of collectors inherit only the corpse of their fathers' satisfied passion.”
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“More can be learned about a country and its people and culture from their buttons than can be learned from all their coins and stamps put together.”
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“I instinctively like to acquire and store up what looks like outlasting me.”
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“Collect treasures that have meaning only to you. Put them in a special place, and explain them to no one, except when you're giving interviews to Time magazine.”
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“[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.”
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“My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.”
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“The temperament of a collector is an interesting one; after all, necessity is never the raison d'être of a collection. And since a collection can never be complete — there is always another item or a better version available — its creation requires a predatory love of objects and an endless appetite.”