Top 234 Venice Quotes & Sayings

To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal.

Venice is eternity itself.

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

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

Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives.

Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial centers, you would have had a much more active political constituency. Venice essentially lived for itself.

Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.

...the tourist Venice is Venice.

Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address.

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

Venice has always fascinated me. Every country in Europe then was run by kings and the Vatican except Venice, which was basically run by councils. I've always wondered why.

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

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

When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.

First, my frame of reference for the Britten opera shifted. I'd always thought of Britten's approach in Death in Venice as another exploration of the plight of the individual whose aspirations are at odds with those of the surrounding community: his last opera returning to the themes of Peter Grimes. As I read and listened and thought, however, Billy Budd came to seem a more appropriate foil for Death in Venice.

Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride.

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip

If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.

I played Shylock in my school's staging of 'Merchant of Venice.'

The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.

When I went to Europe for the first time, I went to Paris and then to Venice. So after Paris, Venice was my first great European city, and it just blew me away.

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.

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.

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

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

There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?' The emperor did not turn a hair. 'And yet I have never heard you mention that name.' And Polo said: 'Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.

Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.

By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs and antennae. At night, when the hordes of day-trippers have gone, another Venice appears. Dance across a floodlit square. Glide in a gondola through quiet canals while music echoes across the water. Pretend it's Carnevale time, don a mask - or just a fresh shirt - and become someone else for a night.

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

I've been to Venice, Rome, and Dubrovnik, but none of them come close to Edinburgh.

In memory Venice is always magic.

Venice is all sea and sculpture.

Venice is incredible. Although you may have seen it in pictures, you can't grasp how beautiful it is until you visit.

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.

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

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.

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.

I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.

It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.

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.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

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

You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu.

To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of imagination as it enters and inhabits other lives across time and gender. The glittering, fetid city emerges as a complex metaphor for the human heart’s simultaneous tenderness and capacity for cruelty, its ‘silver glow / a local specialty: filth / disguised as ornament.’ This Venice is unforgettable.

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

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

When you come to Venice, you do special work.

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

... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so many pictures of it that they can only attempt to view it via these clichés, and they take home photographs of Venice that are similar to the ones they already knew. Venice [is] becoming like one of those painted backdrops that photographers use in their studio.

I think the work is the same in Indie films or blockbuster. It's just a difference when you do all the publicity. It's like another job. I remember the first time I did The Dreamers. I went to Venice; quite a good amount of publicity, a lot of round-tables and TV. I was just not expecting that. I thought I was going to visit Venice, but actually no.

I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area.

That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted although married six months. Big mystery. No one knew where to put their leg and to this day I'm not sure we got it right. He seemed happy. You're like Venice he said beautifully. Early next day I wrote a short talk ("On Defloration") which he stole and had published in a small quarterly magazine. Overall this was a characteristic interaction between us. Or should I say ideal. Neither of us had ever seen Venice.

Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice.