Cities Quote by Mary McCarthy

Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make…

— Erica Jong

Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our…

— Erica Jong

“He was aware for the first time of how quiet the city had gotten. After dark the streets and canals seemed to empty out.…

— Lev Grossman

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

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

— Frida Giannini

...the tourist Venice is Venice.

— Mary McCarthy

“Local fog in Venice has a name: nebbia. It obliterates all reflections ... and everything that has a shape: buildings, people, colonnades, bridges, statues.…

— Joseph Brodsky

... 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

Venice is unlike any other city simply because you travel primarily by boat. Time warps, and I love the feeling of it slowing down.

— Stacy Martin

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

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

— Madame de Stael

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

— Erica Jong