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

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.

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.

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

Plucking a flower and giving it to someone is not an act of kindness

I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.

Lesson: Never underestimate a woman. Or a chef.

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

Don't look too far ahead or you'll get overwhelmed. Just do the next apparent thing. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. You'll get through this. And when you do, you'll feel great!

I'm not in love with you.

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

If I could have gave more, I would have done it. I gave everything I had

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.