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

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.

[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.

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

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

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.