Paul Getty

"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."

"My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see."

"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor."

"Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience."

"A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature."

"I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life."