Paris Quotes: Capturing the City of Love and Light

"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"When good Americans die they go to Paris"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness"

Willa Cather, Author

"America is my country and Paris is my hometown"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Paris ain't much of a town"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

"Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris"

Patti Smith, Musician

"Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

"The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do"

Mae West, Actress

"But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture"

Hugh Dancy, Actor

"The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'"

John Hench, Artist

"It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees"

E. Y. Harburg, Musician

"Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty"

Tyra Banks, Model

"I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career"

Tyra Banks, Model

"Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat"

Friedrich Engels, Philosopher

"We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

"I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

"Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes"

Marc Jacobs, Designer

"I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized"

Marc Jacobs, Designer

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