If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal.

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.

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.

Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party.

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.

You learn from doing and you learn from experiencing what it feels like to be present and lost in the moment with another artist.

I think that you can absolutely enjoy your artistic passion without seeking for the cult of celebrity.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.

I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photography.