Peggy Guggenheim Quotes

#1. Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things.

Lee Krasner

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Peggy Guggenheim

#5. 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

#6. Yet I have discovered that if all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief ...

Michael Crichton

#7. 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

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

Peggy Guggenheim

#9. [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

#10. Sometimes Peggy herself would sell tickets to her museum, and if tourists asked her if Mrs. Guggenheim was still alive, she'd assure them she wasn't.

Edmund White

#11. I personally always hated Pop art.

Peggy Guggenheim

#12. What if you just did it your own way? No rules, no right or wrong, just what you think is beautiful?

Sandra Magsamen

#13. I wasn't this nervous playing golf when I was drinking. It's the first tournament I've won on the PGA Tour in a sober manner, so it's a great feeling knowing I can do it sober. I don't think two years ago I could have pulled this off.

John Daly

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

Peggy Guggenheim

#15. 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

#16. He, Dominix Alexander Zubiri, was in love. With a woman who gagged at the thought of sucking his dick. The universe's idea of a colossal joke.

Jianne Carlo

#17. Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down?

James A. McDougall

#18. 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

#19. As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

Mike Mills

#20. 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

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

Peggy Guggenheim

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

Peggy Guggenheim

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

Peggy Guggenheim

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

Peggy Guggenheim

#25. Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

David Bailey

#26. My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

Peggy Guggenheim

#27. 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

#28. There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

David Eagleman

#29. Like they say, the game is chess, it damn sure ain't checkers. Every move I make is so that I can conquer and destroy.

Wahida Clark