Peggy Guggenheim Quotes

• I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Names, Long, Gender

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• It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Falling In Love, Heart, Mean

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• I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Successful, Thinking, Names

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• I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Advice, Listening, Experts

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• [On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Art, Motto, Collecting

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• [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.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Summer, Heart, Light

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• 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.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Museums, Buying, Regimes

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

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Sunset, Reflection, Venice

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

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Husband, People, My Own

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• I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Art, Mistake, Literature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Art, Order, Abstract

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

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Venice, Cities, Joy

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• Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to live. As neither of us gave the other what he most desired, our union was doomed to failure.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Love, Failure, Order

  Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.223, Ravenio Books

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• To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Passion, Past, Night

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• My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Art, Impressionism

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• I don't collect anymore. Everything is so terribly expensive. I don't see anything I like anyhow.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Expensive

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I personally always hated Pop art.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Art, Pops, Hated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho Marx. He was as animated as a jazz-band leader, which he turned out to be. He showed us his gouaches, which were as musical as Kandinsky's, as delicate as Klee's, and as gay as Miró's.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Gay, Artist, Men

  Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.164, Ravenio Books

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• My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Mother, Children, Father

  Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.21, Ravenio Books

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• I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Nice, Musical, Would Be

  Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.186, Ravenio Books

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