Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because… — Jesse L. Martin Copy Share Image
I'm often in Venice in November and December, when it's foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights… — Juergen Teller Copy Share Image
The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk,… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Mann's Death in Venice actually contains a snippet of philosophy about the second question, when Aschenbach, collapsed in the plaza, engages in… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
After making my stage debut aged nine as Macduff's small son in 'Macbeth,' I had played a number of parts, from 'Twelfth… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
First, my frame of reference for the Britten opera shifted. I'd always thought of Britten's approach in Death in Venice as another… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“He was aware for the first time of how quiet the city had gotten. After dark the streets and canals seemed to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Sundance [festival] is all your Hollywood buds and buddies and rolling out and high-fiving and "Hell, yeah. Here comes the movie," and… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
'A Small Band' was commissioned for the facade of the Central Pavilion at the Fifty-Sixth Venice Biennale in 2013. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I live in Venice, where I can roll out of bed in my pajamas, so I tend to fly under the radar… — Lela Loren Copy Share Image
My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Venice is incredible. Although you may have seen it in pictures, you can't grasp how beautiful it is until you visit. — Gino D'Acampo Copy Share Image
I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I like to think that people can see that and appreciate that idea and then, by some mechanism of wearing the fragrance,… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Using the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth is one of the touches of pure genius in Visconti's film (even though Mahlerians complain very… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
“In Venice, Grant let slip a remark that would provide fodder for many satirists: he told a young woman what a fine… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality.… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
![“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…” quote by David Gordon Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/402/david-gordon-green-18404_bud_sundance-festival-is-all-your-hollywood_1256634.jpg)
![“When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence.” quote by Haile Gerima](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/905/haile-gerima-21623_black_when-my-film-went-to-the-venice-film-fes_1682077.jpg)
![“This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?” quote by Mary McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97d/mary-mccarthy-2691_clay_this-grossly-advertised-wonder-venice-th_933398.png)
