Archive for March, 2010

Inspiring Quotations for Collectors

Inspiring Quotations for Collectors
If you are an admirer of antiques and collectibles and looking for inspiring collectible quotations then this blog comprising of beautiful collection quotes would surely be of an interest to you. Read on!

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb. – Jean Arp

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

The man who can but sketch his purpose beforehand in words is regarded as a wonder, and every artist and writer possesses that faculty. But gestation, fruition, the laborious rearing of the offspring, putting it to bed every night full fed with milk, embracing it anew every morning with the inexhaustible affection of a mother’s heart, licking it clean, dressing it a hundred times in the richest garb only to be instantly destroyed; then never to be cast down at the convulsions of this headlong life till the living masterpiece is perfected which in sculpture speaks to every eye, in literature to every intellect, in painting to every memory, in music to every heart! –this is the task of execution. The hand must be ready at every moment to work in obedience to the mind. – Honore de Balzac, Cousin Bette

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. – Charles Baudelaire

We hope that this compilation of collectible quotes inspired you to redefine your approach towards antiques and collectibles.

Collectible Quotations – Inspiration for Collectors

Collectible Quotations _ Inspiration for Collectors
If you are into the world of antiques and collectibles and ready to move on to the next level of collections, this blog with interesting and inspiring quotations would surely be appreciated by you. Compiled from the web, these motivating quotes on collectibles are a must for every collector without any doubt.

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn’t make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting — the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near. – Saul Bellow

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. – Walter Benjamin

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. – Professor Blackie

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. – Andre Breton

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important. – Luis Bunuel

We hope that these collectible quotations gave you endless reasons to continue the journey of collections besides motivating you. Happy collecting!

Quotations for Collectible Lovers – Inspiration come easy!

Quotations for Collectible Lovers _ Inspiration come easy!
Now that you have decided to make it real big in the world of antiques and collectibles, it is time for you to get some inspiration in the form of motivating and unique collectible quotations. We have compiled some of the most interesting quotes on collections so that you can easily enjoy them all. Read on!

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. – Cyril Connolly

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs. – Charlotte Saunders Cushman

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. – Angela Y. Davis

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential –the imagination. – Lawrence Durrell

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. – Guy Debord

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing –to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass. – William Faulkner

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Gas Station Collectibles – Amazing Collection Products!

Gas Station <b>Collectibles</b> - Amazing Collection Products!
When it comes to amazing and complete value-for-money collection products, gas station collectibles are second to none. Read on!

If you are into the world of rare collections, gas station collectibles would surely be one of your admired choices. If not by now, you would be surprised to know that you are lagging behind in the world of rare collections without even realizing it.

The fact that gas station collectibles are priced lower and yet command higher respect than other forms of collectibles means that you have everything to gain and nothing to lose with these prized possessions. If that was not all, you have endless gas collection items to choose from, such as nostalgic, old-time gas station, garage service signs, map racks, oil racks, clocks, racing signs, vintage posters, and oil cans from brands such as Kurtis-Kraft, Offenhauser, Sinclair, Pennzoil, Shell, Texaco, Gulf, Champion, Ford, Amaco, Goodyear, Esso, Mopar, Polly, Sunoco, Quaker State, Mobil, Kendall, Oilzum, and Harley to name a few.

What’s more, these station collectibles can be easily purchased over the Internet without putting a burden on your collection budget. This means that you can be a proud owner of amazing collections in no time besides getting complete value from your hard-earned money. These and many more reasons are good enough for every collector of antiques and collectibles to opt for gas station collectibles. After all, the variety of gas collections is something that every collector can be really proud of.