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.

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 married again instead.

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

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

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 other what he most desired, our union was doomed to failure.

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