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 look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

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

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

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

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.

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.