After your first visit you are destined to return at every possible chance or with every possible excuse. There is no staying away for long. [...] 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. […] If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal.”

- Peggy Guggenheim, Out of This Century (London: Andre Deutsch, 1979)