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Collector Inspirational Quotes (963)

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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.
William Blake
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To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
Gertrude Stein
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I didn't know Michael Heizer until I was preparing for my Earthworks show in 1968, and somebody called and told me to look at his work. Heizer had already made land art before any of the others and was deeply into it. But he was very young and working out West, so I wasn't aware of his work until he came and showed it to me.
Virginia Dwan
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
Karl Lagerfeld
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To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.
William Blake
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I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
Gertrude Stein
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Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.
William Blake
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Gertrude Stein
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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake
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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
Gertrude Stein
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If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.
Karl Lagerfeld
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History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.
Edmund Snow Carpenter
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I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
Karl Lagerfeld
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As we are, so we see.
William Blake
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The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.
William Blake
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Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!
William Blake
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Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.
William Blake
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Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?
William Blake
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I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.
Karl Lagerfeld
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One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
Gertrude Stein
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Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
William Blake
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there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.
Gertrude Stein
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