I personally always hated Pop art.

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.

[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart.

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

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

I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert.

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