The Cultures of Collecting Quotes

“Motivation is, then, both another narrative aspect of collecting and its intrinsically ungraspable beginning.”
― Mieke Bal, The Cultures of Collecting

“(...) the objects in our lives, as distinct from the way we make use of them at a given moment, represent something much more, something profoundly related to subjectivity: for a while the object is a resistant material body, it is also, simultaneously, a mental realm over which I hold sway, a thing whose meaning is governed by myself alone. It is all my own, the object of my passion.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Cultures of Collecting