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If you want to feel the groove of antiques and collectibles, this compilation of inspiring quotations will help you stay close to this world in one of the easiest ways.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself.  What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done?  A painter has only one language.  – Pablo Picasso

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.  – Georgia O’Keeffe

The artist’s world is limitless.  It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away.  It is always on his doorstep.  – Paul Strand

Very few people possess true artistic ability.  It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.  If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.  – Fran Lebowitz

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.  The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.  – Henry Miller

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself – life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.  – Willa Cather

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.  – Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.  – Edgar Degas

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job.  It releases tension needed for his work.  - Henry Moore

If you consider yourself to be a diehard collector of antiques and collectibles and looking for inspiration online, this compilation of inspiring quotations will help you realize your dream in the easiest of all ways.

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself.  What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done?  A painter has only one language.  – Pablo Picasso

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.  – Georgia O’Keeffe

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself – life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.  – Willa Cather

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.  – Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.  – Edgar Degas

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job.  It releases tension needed for his work.  – Henry Moore

The artist’s world is limitless.  It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away.  It is always on his doorstep.  – Paul Strand

Very few people possess true artistic ability.  It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.  If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.  – Fran Lebowitz

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.  The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.  – Henry Miller