Jonathan Anderson Quotes

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

Collecting is my passion.

I guess I always have been a collector.

I believe that everyone collects. I think collecting is in our blood as humans.

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

I'm a collector of everything.

I'm not a collector.

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something.

I'm always buying glasses and teacups. I have way too many to use, but I just love them, particularly anything vintage.

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

A real collector does not sell.

I'm a hoarder.

People sometimes think that I bring home all these old books because I'm addicted, that I'm no better than a hoarder with a houseful of crumbling newspapers.

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

I'm a real hoarder.

My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.

I love collections of things, but always in moderation.

I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.