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.

My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

Love does not choose belief, place, time, situations, or race. love happens between two souls.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

It's a really good time for California right now in music.

As you get older, you learn there are some things out of your control.

Day and night I always dream with open eyes." - José Martí

Don't think about what you want, think about what the world needs, and strive to fill that gap. Success is a game of inches.

Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it