Best 5 quotes of Paul Mellon on MyQuotes

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

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

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

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

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.