It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.

It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else.

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

If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal.

[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart.

Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.

I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert.