Paul Mellon Quotes

#1. It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.

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#2. Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

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#3. There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

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#4. College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

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#5. When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.

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#6. The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.

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#7. Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.

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#8. Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

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#9. In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right.

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#10. Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

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