A billion dollars isnt what it used to be.

A billion dollars isn't what it used to be.

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

People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character.

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

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

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

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

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

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

First, you decide what you want specifically; and second, you decide if you're willing to pay the price to make it happen, and then pay that price.

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.

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.

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.

The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred.

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