Words matter. These are the best Antique Quotes from famous people such as Allan Gurganus, Noel Fielding, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ellsworth Kelly, Ridley Scott, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
People rich enough to redecorate every 10 months are certainly careless with antique furniture. I found four 1760 French side chairs, tapestry seats intact. Claiming them proved easier than persuading any cabdriver to transport the things.
I bought two sculptures of two baboons called Lord and Lady Muck on an antique piece of furniture from an art exhibition, and it was quite expensive. It was very expensive, actually – way too expensive.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
In Paris in the late ’40s, I started making my first reliefs. They are separate panels. I wanted to do something coming out of the wall, almost like a collage. I did a lot of white reliefs when I started because I liked antique reliefs, really old stuff.
I don’t get attached to anything. I’m like a good antique dealer. I’m prepared to sell my most valuable table.
I wore a woman’s antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.
I have gained value like an antique. If there is an ’80s event, I normally get the call and that is a nice problem to have.
My apartment is full of antique pieces, but I put everything together like a modern installation.
On the other hand, I don’t understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn’t have thrown it out.
I always try to scour local vintage shops and antique stores as much as I can while I’m on the road – it’s my version of hunting for buried treasure.
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
One of my favorite places I’ve visited is Havana, Cuba. On my way home from Costa Rica, I did a week in Havana. The colors, the music, the beautiful men and the cars! I love vintage and antique cars and own a couple myself.
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Everything I commission – whether it is for me or for a client’s home or for a hotel or office – is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions.
There was a time when I restored antique planes to support my art habit.
I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.
My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.
Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.
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 have no interest in making music that’s built for an antique shop.
I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.
A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.
When I was studying at Purdue, we learned our thermodynamics from an antique steam engine. When I went back in 1964, I found the laboratories packed with the most modern equipment for the study of thermodynamics, some of which had been built by the students themselves.
I still like my antique clothes.
A journey through the Mediterranean is not only inspiring and stimulating, it is also humbling. The men and women who created antique treasures for us to marvel at had to deal with plague, genocide, a world without writing, iron tools, or penicillin – and yet they made something extraordinary of their life and times.
You have to fight against being an antique.
I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.
One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don’t know the stories, I make them up.
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.
