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

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.

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

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

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.