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I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.


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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.



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I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

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

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.

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



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



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



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