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 w…

- Paul Mellon

The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.

- Paul Mellon

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

- Paul Mellon

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

- Paul Mellon

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

- Paul Mellon

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

- 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