[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.

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

It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.

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

[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.

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