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

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

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

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

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.