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If you have a flair for collectibles and antiques’ quotes, this compilation of collectible quotations will surely be of an interest to you.

I don’t buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane. – Charles Saatchi

I collect antiques. Why? Because they’re beautiful. – Broderick Crawford

Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods. – David Sylvester

There are not only more people collecting, there are more people collecting for the wrong reasons, basically as the latest get rich quick scheme. They buy art like lottery tickets. – Mary Boone

Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist’s big glass vitrine holding a rotting cow’s head covered by maggots and swarms of buzzing flies may be pretty unsellable. Until the artist becomes a star. Then he can sell anything he touches. – Charles Saatchi

Nobody can give you advice after you’ve been collecting for a while. If you don’t enjoy making your own decisions, you’re never going to be much of a collector anyway. – Charles Saatchi

“Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word ”collectible” as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.” – Fran Lebowitz

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture. – Margaret O’Brien

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. – Ursula Andress