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

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.

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 in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.

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.

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

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.

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