Botticelli Quote by Norbert Bisky

Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.

— David Bailey

“It was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect on him, that Swann remarked Odette's resemblance to…

— Marcel Proust

“Or she would look at him with a sullen expression, once again he would see before him a face worthy of figuring in Botticelli's…

— Marcel Proust

There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private. The fact that Italy chose to incarnate…

— Giovanna Cau

Italian men age very well. That's what I've learned from Tony Danza.

— Alyssa Milano

His home life is as ordered and complex and sophisticated as his work life. You don't find creations like this anymore. The Leopard comes…

— Matt Tyrnauer

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

— Samuel Johnson

“He was thinking of Marco, Daisy, Sono Oguki, Madeleine, the Pontritters, and now and then of the difference between ancient and modern tragedy according…

— Saul Bellow

“A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a…

— Samuel Johnson

“Italy, all the same, had spoiled a great many people; he was even fatuous enough to believe at times that he himself might have…

— Anonymous

Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries.

— Stefano Gabbana

Max Askeli was a very courageous, principled man up to a point. He had left Italy before he was thrown in jail by [Francesco]…

— Nat Hentoff