Quotes About Venice

Most municipalities grow up around commerce; there's a harbor, or the train stops there. Venice, CA was founded for fun.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

Still teenagers, Harry and Peter Brant II have never disappointed when I've seen them out and about in New York, Paris, and Venice (Which is where all schoolkids go on field trips, right?) They're not afraid of wearing brooches, capes, embroidery, and even a dab-bing of makeup.

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen.

Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.

When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.

I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

I live in Venice, where I can roll out of bed in my pajamas, so I tend to fly under the radar - and I hope that continues.

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.

Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.

I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner.

For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, 'We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!'

Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.

Venissa is a perfect destination for day-trippers from Venice proper who are searching for great food and a little adventure; it's a 30-minute jaunt by vaporetto from St. Mark's, quicker by water taxi.

'A Small Band' was commissioned for the facade of the Central Pavilion at the Fifty-Sixth Venice Biennale in 2013.

I love to get out and see real life and to walk, which is why I love Venice so much - it's such a great walking city.

If you want to go for a romantic break, or a quick break in Italy, it has to be Venice.

Venice is unlike any other city simply because you travel primarily by boat. Time warps, and I love the feeling of it slowing down.

When I think of Venice Beach, my father's painting is what comes to mind.