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

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.

[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.

I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

Patience graciously, compassionately and with understanding, judges the faults of others without unjust criticism.

It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together... then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.

God knows of love

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.

It's really up to me to speed up my learning curve as a player so I can contribute in a much bigger way night in and night out.

The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.