"Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly."
- Peggy Kopman-Owens
"My Illusionist, will you take me into a world filled with timeless magic?"
- Con.Template
"Of course the people in the metro didn't see a thing!...what a joke! petrified ratlets! but they'll still come out to refute me! make claims!...that nothing got bombed!...squished! powdered! that the ..."
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"As the shabby section of the audience rose to its feet, waving its hats and food-wrappers, a rich, stale smell wafted through the auditorium. It had something of the fog on the boulevard outside, wher..."
- Graham Robb
"In those days, long before, a view over the rooftops of Paris was an unaffordable luxury. The apartment he had shared with a mousy young writer from Laon had a view of the Jardin de Luxembourg – if he..."
"The sun finally died in beauty, flinging out its crimson flames, which cast their reflection on the faces of passers-by, giving them a strangely feverish look. The darkness of the trees became deeper...."
- Georges Simenon
"... Paris was a city of love for unimaginative folks."
- Lauren Morrill
"If I walked down by different streets to the Jardin du Luxembourg in the afternoon I could walk through the gardens and then go to the Musée du Luxembourg where the great paintings were that have now ..."
- Ernest Hemingway
"If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!"
- Mehmet Murat ildan
"It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a books"
- Gérard de Nerval