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.

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

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

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

[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.

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