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Paul Mellon [1907-1999] American

Paul Mellon was an American philanthropist and an owner/breeder of thoroughbred racehorses. He is one of only five people ever designated an "Exemplar of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

Experience

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There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.		101
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.	Experience	102
Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.		103
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.		104
Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.		105
College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.		106
When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.		107
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.		108
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.		109

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