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

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

I personally always hated Pop art.

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

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

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

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