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 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.

[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho Marx. He was as animated as a jazz-band leader, which he turned out to be. He showed us his gouaches, which were as musical as Kandinsky's, as delicate as Klee's, and as gay as Miró's.

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

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.

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