Venice Quotes
The best sayings about Venice that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in the end, I had a big collage in the Pinault Collection in Venice and the director of the [Centre] Pompidou said, "Did you make big collages like this in the '60s?" I said yes, so he came to the studio and said, "Let's make an exhibition in the Pompidou."
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To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster.
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It is not surprising that only one medieval state, Venice, long possessed anything clearly identifiavble as a navy in this sense. We shall see that no state in the British Isles attained attained this level of sophistication before the 16th century, and no history of the Royal Navy, in any exact sense of the words, could legitimately begin much before then. This book, which does, is not an institutional history of the Royal Navy, but a history of naval warfare as an aspect of national history. All and any methods of fighting at sea, or using the sea for warlike purposes, are its concern.
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When you come to Venice, you do special work.
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I'm criticizing the way they are perceived. I was going through a book of Marina Abramovic and Ulay's 1970s performance work the other day. These people did two, even three Documentas or Venice Biennales over the course of a decade without any fuss. They would just treat it as any of their other engagements, with the same level of dignity and commitment they'd reserve for a one-day event in a small gallery on the Austrian mountains.
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I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
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Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls
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If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal.
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At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
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I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area.
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The quality of mercy is not strained
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Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.
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The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons.
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Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.
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Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.
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History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream.
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The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
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We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
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I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
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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 house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.
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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
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There is a big difference between The Merchant of Venice and a photograph of two males of different races in an erotic pose on a marble table top.
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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
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Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .
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I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.
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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.
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