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

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

I personally always hated Pop art.

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.

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

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

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, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.