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WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT VENICE
In Venice light and water combine to
create a restless magic. All borderlines are eradicated
some where between dream and reality, present and past,
the ethereal nature of this town has fascinated many
famous people. Here it is what some people have said
about Venice.
"The women of Venice are beautiful but, more to
the point, they are flirtatious."
Ange Goudar
"Between the still-slumbering walls of brick and
marble, beneath the ribbon of the sky, more and more
brightly gleamed the ribbon of the water."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
"As sailors and merchants, town-builders and
politicians, the Venetians were the forerunners and the
youth of today's civilization."
Le Corbusier
"I have never witnessed such an ecstasy of joy
as that shown by the audience when they saw themselves
and their families so realistically portrayed on the
stage. They shouted with laughter from beginning to
end."
Goethe
"Nothing is simpler than to lose oneself in
Venice; and nothing is more fun than to be in this
labirinth without a Minotaur, as a Theseus without an
Ariadne's thread."
Jean-Louis Vaudoyer
"The Grand Canal, the most beautiful
thoroughfare in the world that I know of, has the best
houses along it, and runs from one end of the city to the
other."
Philippe de Commynes
"When I went to Venice, I discovered that my
dream had become-incredibly but quite simply- my
address."
Marcel Proust
"It is charming to disembark at the
polishedsteps of a little campo- a sunny, shabby square
with an old well in the middle, an old church on one side
and tall Venetian windows looking down."
Henry James
"And at night they sang in the gondolas, and in
the barche with lanterns; the prows rose silver on
silver,taking light in the darkness."
Ezra Pound
"Here it is S. Marco, the tower, the piazza,
Palazzo Ducale. Probably such a jewel doesn't exist
anywhere else in the world."
Hippolyte Taine
"A realist, in Venice would become a romantic,
by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him."
Arthur Symons
"Venice is not only a city of fantasy and
freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure."
Peggy Guggenheim
