Art Quote by Rick Steves

To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with…

— Peggy Guggenheim

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

“Venice appeared to me as in a recurring dream, a place once visited and now fixed in memory like images on a photographer’s plates…

— Gary Inbinder

When you come to Venice, you do special work.

— Bruce Paltrow

[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

— Sylvia Pankhurst

... 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

“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

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

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

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

— Christopher Moore

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

— Peggy Guggenheim