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 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.

[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.

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 wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.

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

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.

My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.

If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.

We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.

All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.

THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.

I want Obama to have to weigh in on Ben Affleck as Batman. It's about time Obama went to work.

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.