I don't collect anymore. Everything is so terribly expensive. I don't see anything I like anyhow.

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

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.

[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.

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.

Its not about what we take with us when we die, Its about what we leave behind.

You'll never understand how powerful your choices have been or are until the day you ask yourself why you made them.

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

I really enjoyed being Peppy Miller. She was an amazing character and her energy followed me everywhere. When I talk about her I want to be her again.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

Leo Valdez deserved a special punishment," she [Khione] said. "I have sent him to a place from which he can never return.

Everything has to do with loving and not loving.

I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.

All things come to those who wait.