Paul Mellon's Quotes
Born: 1907-06-11
Profession: Businessman
Nation: American
Biography of Paul Mellon
Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.
Tags: Collecting, CreepsCollege isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.
Tags: College, Life, ReadingJust as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
Tags: Art, Experience, WorksPreliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.
Tags: Emotional, Far, OftenThere is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.
Tags: Emotional, Original, UniqueWhen you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.
Tags: Good, May, MoneyIn 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.
Tags: Father, Him, VisionIt 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.
Tags: Father, Hope, LivingWithin 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.
Tags: Love, Marriage, Mother