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

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.

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

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.

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

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.