[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 nearly breaks one's heart.

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.

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

I personally always hated Pop art.

[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 nearly breaks one's heart.

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

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.