The art of collecting : a lecture / by Sir Robert Witt.

  • Robert Witt
Date:
[1950?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of collecting : a lecture / by Sir Robert Witt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    even a sport. I can only suggest a few thoughts, to beguile your leis¬ ured consideration, and touch lightly upon the subject, for it has many aspects. Those who collect nothing generally plead the want of time and money. Time and money are the two greatest impostors in the world. An active business man, whom I knew, with vast responsibilities, and at the same time a passionate art-collector, was asked how he managed to combine two such divergent interests. This was his reply: ‘Each year of our lives contains fifty-two Sundays and three hundred and sixty-five nights’. A great answer, though he might well have said, ‘weekends’ instead of ‘Sundays’. For if you will only add up the numbers of hours that these Sundays and nights provide, you can no longer plead ‘No time’. Of the other, the money impostor, I will speak later.