Anthony Warlow Quotes

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.

Museums, I love museums.

I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when I'm abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told Mr. Coolidge when he dedicated this monument that this rock is being carved with a monument that will outlive our government.

I'm an old bag - I like old things.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.

I was fortunate because my mum shared my love of film with me, so we would go to the movies twice, three times a week, and we would watch movies at home. As a teenager, instead of going out, we would have these huge movie nights in. But I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.

I love going to tag sales, to auctions.

I have two curiosity cabinets at home filled with finds from jumble sales, markets and my travels. My favourite piece is a voodoo mask from just outside Cape Town.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.

It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

I really don’t make history; I preserve it.

If there was a day that history was not recorded, then the history of one hundred days would be in peril.

Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.