Quotes by Paul Mellon

About Paul Mellon:

Paul Mellon is one of only five people ever designated an "Exemplar of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. He was co-heir to one of America's greatest business fortunes, the Mellon Bank fortune, created by his grandfather Thomas Mellon, his father Andrew W. Mellon, and his father's brother Richard B. Mellon. In 1957, when Fortune prepared its first list of the wealthiest Americans, it estimated that Paul Mellon, his sister Ailsa Mellon-Bruce, and his cousins Sarah Mellon and Richard King Mellon, were all among the richest eight people in the United States, with fortunes of between 400 and 700 million dollars each (around $3,400,000,000 and $5,900,000,000 in today's dollars).
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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.

Paul Mellon

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

Paul Mellon

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

Paul Mellon

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.

Paul Mellon

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

Paul Mellon

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.

Paul Mellon

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

Paul Mellon

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

Paul Mellon

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.

Paul Mellon

Author Bio

  • NamePaul Mellon
  • DescriptionAmerican racehorse owner
  • BornJune 11, 1907
  • DiedFebruary 1, 1999
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur; Art Collector; Philanthropist
  • AwardsBronze Star Medal; Knight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; National Medal Of Arts; National Humanities Medal