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…

- Peggy Guggenheim

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…

- Peggy Guggenheim

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

- Peggy Guggenheim

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…

- Peggy Guggenheim

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

- Peggy Guggenheim

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

- Peggy Guggenheim

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.

- Peggy Guggenheim

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

- Peggy Guggenheim

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

- Peggy Guggenheim