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

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 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.

Music give infinite strength.

I think faith is vitally important to your day, your seconds in each day. Faith helps to get you through the day.

I don't know if it's the economy, but finding work as a spiritual guru is really hard. Maybe I should grow my hair out.

You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all.

Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.

As I've grown older, the simple pleasure of sitting on the couch with someone you love and watching a documentary is about as good as it gets for me.

Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

Cows are a lot smarter across the board than bulls.

Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues.