Venice Quotes - Page 9

• 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.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Museums, Would Be

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated by his student), and it surely distorts the character Mann created. Yet, we know that Mann's novella was based on a holiday in Venice he took with his wife and brother, and that while he was there he followed the reports in the German newspapers, describing the dying Mahler's progress as he returned from New York to Vienna.

  Philip Kitcher

  Brother, New York, Holiday

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Using the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth is one of the touches of pure genius in Visconti's film (even though Mahlerians complain very loudly that the piece has been ruined), since it corresponds perfectly to Aschenbach's yearnings and to his circling walks around Venice.

  Philip Kitcher

  Complaining, Genius, Pieces

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

  Robert Englund

  World, Festivals, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I like to think that people can see that and appreciate that idea and then, by some mechanism of wearing the fragrance, sort of carry that idea with them in their own life. Whether it's a weekend in Louisiana or in New York City or in Venice, Italy, or wherever they may be. I think there's something kind of fascinating and powerful about that.

  Jared Leto

  New York, Powerful, Weekend

  "Jared Leto Talks Rebel Style, Gucci's Alessandro Michele, and Why He Hates Shopping". Interview with Megan Gustashaw, www.gq.com. September 8, 2016.

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• It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face of it is quite beautiful, interesting, and textured.

  Will Arnett

  Beautiful, People, Interesting

  "Will Arnett Is Ready to Confront His Own Demons". Interview with Andi Teran, www.elle.com. March 10, 2016.

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• The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in the end, I had a big collage in the Pinault Collection in Venice and the director of the [Centre] Pompidou said, "Did you make big collages like this in the '60s?" I said yes, so he came to the studio and said, "Let's make an exhibition in the Pompidou."

  Erro

  Directors, Exhibitions, Ends

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

  Jan Morris

  Hands, Oysters, Cities

  Jan Morris (2008). “Venice”, p.167, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

  Rick Steves

  Art, Night, Echoes

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• I moved into a nice houseboat in Little Venice when I was 15 years old. I found a girlfriend called Monday and a houseboat called Friday, so I had the week sewn up.

  Richard Branson

  Friday, Girlfriend, Monday

  "AskMen" Interview, au.askmen.com.

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• This is the end. This is as far as you can go. After this it all starts over again.

  Tony Hendra

  Starting Over, Ends

  Tony Hendra (2004). “Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Faith”, p.153, Random House

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

  George William Curtis

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  George William Curtis (1856). “Works: Lotus-eating”, p.185

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• Sundance [festival] is all your Hollywood buds and buddies and rolling out and high-fiving and "Hell, yeah. Here comes the movie," and in Venice, it's very elegant, and respectful...It's decadence. It's such a fun way to formalize a movie that is for us a down-and-dirty, gritty movie. And to see it with the red carpet, and rolling up in a Maserati.

  David Gordon Green

  Fun, Dirty, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We shall see that no state in the British Isles attained attained this level of sophistication before the 16th century, and no history of the Royal Navy, in any exact sense of the words, could legitimately begin much before then. This book, which does, is not an institutional history of the Royal Navy, but a history of naval warfare as an aspect of national history. All and any methods of fighting at sea, or using the sea for warlike purposes, are its concern.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Book, Fighting, Sea

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• Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice to Toledo (where El Greco painted a lot, fh). Expression is for one knowing its own pivot. Every expressor relates solely to himself - that is the concern of the individualist.

  Marsden Hartley

  Distance, Expression, Paris

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• Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

  Romare Bearden

  Happiness, Time, Art

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• There were two practical reasons we moved to Venice. One was that there was an artists movement and a countercultural movement. Lots of people we might want to hire lived in the area. We also wanted to buy in a lower rent area that looked like it was going to be gentrified so that we could eventually sell the studio for more money.

  Roger Corman

  Artist, Two, People

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• Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!

  Camryn Manheim

  Pockets, Crafts, Wallets

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• At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution.

  Chris Burden

  Two, Wire, Burning

  Chris Burden, Alberta College of Art. Gallery (1976). “Chris Burden, February 18, 1976”

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• The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, Essentials, World

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Should Have, Cities, Gone

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• Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Names, Numbers

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• ...the tourist Venice is Venice.

  Mary McCarthy

  Tourists

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• In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.

  Jim Morrison

  Song, Ocean, Night

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• Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted power.... It is a place of dreams, not only the tinseled ones.

  Fritz Leiber

  Dream, Atmosphere, Innocence

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Black Gondolier: And Other Stories”, p.10, Open Road Media

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