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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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