I have collections of quirky things from places I’ve been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

–Emma Watson

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

–Sister Corita

Collectors are happy people.

–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The art one chooses to collect becomes a self-portrait.

– Dennis Heckler

What is a collector? It’s an innate trait. We start as children collecting leaves, or stamps or stones and, as we get older, teens collect friends, CDs and, as an adult, it can be anything.

-Edgar Paulik