I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project..

I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert..

I personally always hated Pop art..

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it..

Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to live. As neither of us gave the ot….

I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art..

I don't collect anymore. Everything is so terribly expensive. I don't see anything I like anyhow..

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure..

[When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's?.

Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day..

To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abduct….

My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had mar….

My knowledge of art ended at impressionism..

[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho Marx. He was as ….

[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it ne….

I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's….

I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it..

If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal..

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake..

It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall….