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

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?

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.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that might not otherwise get made, to the screen and to work with directors we respect.

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.

Meditating is not a matter of saying i am going to meditate. It is, just for a moment retreating from the need to do anything and instead just be.

To me coming up short as a team and for me not having a great particular game was tough to swallow, but your life doesn't end there. You must put your life into perspective and keep moving on.

Grant yourself permission to have all that life has to offer, and you will discover it has more to offer than you've ever imagined.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.