I personally always hated Pop 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.

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.

You are the adventurer of your life so try hard to find the diamond in your heart.

Count me in, Kat." He squeezed her tighter. "You should always count me in." - W. W. Hale the Fifth

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

I'd rather be kind than right. You can always be kind.

When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades And the crowds don't remember my name When my hands don't play the strings the same way I know you will still love me the same.

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.

Know well what holds you back, and what moves you forward

In so many accidents, you're not quite sure. Lots of times you think that's what happened, but you just don't know.

Wounds heal and become scars, but scars grow with us.

We have two kids, my wife and myself.