conviction makes an admirable collector

Jill Reynolds

detail, Family Matter
Photo Credit: Creative Commons License, Flickr user unforth

Those vapid quotes on the walls of the Bellevue Art Museum got me trying to find something better.  

2005 Michael Kimmelman:  "Not all collectors are eccentrics, of course.  Most aren't, although the best often are: out of passion and private conviction, they collect what may not yet be ratified, as opposed to what fashion and the market already prize, in the belief that public taste should someday catch up.  The combination of public service and the strength of one's conviction is what defines an admirable collector."

Kimmelman, M. "The Accidental Masterpiece."  Penguin Books, NY. 2005. p100