“A realist in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.”
― Arthur Symons
“It’s so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where Everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.”
— Nanette Lepore
“To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.”
— Alexander Herzen
“A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.””
— Sylvia Pankhurst
“This was Venice, the flattering and suspect beauty this city, half fairy tale and half tourist trap, in whose insalubrious air the arts once rankly and voluptuously blossomed, where composers have been inspired to lulling tones of somniferous eroticism.”
– Thomas Mann
