She leaned against the bridgeβs warm marble balustrade, and looked as far down the darkening canal as the setting sun would allow. She wondered if others appreciated Veniceβs beauty and fragility as deeply as she had come to or if, like a raging fever, the city infected some while avoiding others. She sighed at the grandeur and at the resilience that surrounded her, and she promised herself sheβd try to be more like Venice.
All of Vegas is false. There's a false Paris, a false Venice, a false Baghdad - in fact, all of the early Vegas aesthetic is Baghdad, which is also the irony. It's 'Aladdin,' the sands, 'One Thousand and One Nights.'
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
'A Small Band' was commissioned for the facade of the Central Pavilion at the Fifty-Sixth Venice Biennale in 2013.
Sultan Mehmet had good relations with the Medici family and other powerful Italian clans, especially in Venice and Florence, and at his request, they sent him artists and craftsmen by the dozen.
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
I'm often in Venice in November and December, when it's foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights in the churches make the place feel both Christmassy and melancholic.
It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.
I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade. I'm not familiar with 'Death of a Salesman.' I haven't read Tennessee Williams.
Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.
I played Shylock in my school's staging of 'Merchant of Venice.'
