Celebrate Quote by Erica Jong

... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so many pictures…

— Christian Boltanski

The perennial wonder of Venice is to peer at herself in her canals and find that she exists-incredible as it seems. It is the…

— Mary McCarthy

Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is you want…

— Will Arnett

...the tourist Venice is Venice.

— Mary McCarthy

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…

— Will Arnett

“In Venice, things not always as they first appear. I contemplate this observation from my post on the aft deck of one of Master…

— Laura Morelli

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…

— Fritz Leiber

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a…

— Mary Augusta Ward

Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters),…

— Erica Jong

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.

— Peggy Guggenheim

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…

— Jan Morris

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

— Christopher Moore