Private Collection Quotes

Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.

If I hold onto something it's because I want it not because I want to display it or show it to somebody else. I've got some cool stuff, I've got some cool things.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

My wife has them all in a vault... a copy of every album.

I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.

I guess we all have that 'Dig Me' space, where we have some of our things displayed. Mine's a little bit more off the beaten path. You're not going to see it as soon as you walk into my house, but it does exist.

Thomas Jefferson had the largest library of books in the world that was in the hands of a private collection.

My favorite photos of family are framed in my house, not posted on social media, and they'll remain there.

I have tons of music stashed.

A man's library is a sort of harem.

I have the largest private collection in the world [of Hollywood memorabilia].

I have a lot of songs that I kind of put away, and I don't let anybody else hear them, and those are my songs.