Paul Mellon Quotes
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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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Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.
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When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.
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There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.
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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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Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.