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

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.

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.

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

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