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

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.

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

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

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

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

I personally always hated Pop art.