If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image