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

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

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.

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.

I personally always hated Pop art.

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

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