Past Quotes by Peggy Guggenheim

“She seemed to like best my daughter, Pegeen's, paintings, though when I made the observation that the people in Pegeen's paintings, strangely enough, never…

— Peggy Guggenheim

[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho…

— Peggy Guggenheim

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

— Peggy Guggenheim

Peace was the one thing that Max (Ernst) needed in order to paint, and love was the one thing I needed in order to…

— Peggy Guggenheim

It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even…

— Peggy Guggenheim

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

— Peggy Guggenheim

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.…

— Peggy Guggenheim

My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

— Peggy Guggenheim

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…

— Peggy Guggenheim

I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and…

— Peggy Guggenheim

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

— Peggy Guggenheim

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

— Peggy Guggenheim