Paris, where all eyes were focused in the summer of 2024 for the celebration of the Olympic Games, is one of the most important cities in Europe. You love her or you hate her. There is no middle ground. However, beyond personal tastes, what is indisputable is that the French capital, in addition to now being the Olympic venue, is the cradle of fashion and a world center of art and gastronomy.
That is why it is not surprising that the majority of the protagonists of these 19 short and beautiful phrases about Paris are artists, since it has been and is a place of pilgrimage as a source of inspiration.
PHRASES ABOUT THE ATTRACTIONS OF PARIS
Have you been to Paris or do you simply love it and lack words to express everything this city makes you feel? Wherever you look, Paris is art and history, city of emperors and artists. Its light is so special that it is even known as the city of light.
If instead of Paris you have visited other European capitals such as Rome or Barcelona, for example, you may also have had the same feeling. But like these other cities, Paris is a unique place.
PHRASES ABOUT PARIS TO SHARE
Below you will find 19 short and beautiful phrases about Paris that we have compiled for you. Find the essence of the city by seeing it through the eyes of some of the artists, writers and thinkers who have loved and enjoyed it as we invite you to do here.
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«As an artist, one has no home in Europe, except in Paris.» (Friedrich Nietzsche)
At the end of the 19th century it was easy to find artists of the stature of the Spanish Pablo Picasso or thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche himself, author of this phrase, on the streets of Montmartre. In this marginal neighborhood far from the center of Paris, painters and writers could live with few resources and brothels and cabarets were established offering disinhibition and entertainment.
However, despite the bad reputation that this cheerful life gave at that time to the current 18th district, the presence of so many artists gave rise to movements as important as Impressionism. Today, Montmartre remains the bohemian neighborhood of the city that attracts multitudes of tourists to enjoy its street artists, its cobbled streets, its cafes and, above all, its iconic Moulin Rouge and the Sacre Coeur Basilica.
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«The light of Paris is only comparable to the brilliance of a diamond.» (Elisabeth Taylor)
It is impossible to talk about the city of love without mentioning its sunrises and sunsets, which surround the city with spectacular light.
Nor can one talk about Paris without mentioning the Louvre museum, because not only does it house valuable and spectacular works, such as La Giocconda, but its architecture itself is already truly beautiful. It is not surprising that it is the setting for countless films and music videos and the protagonist of countless artistic manifestations.
The pyramid that gives access to the Louvre museum seems designed with this phrase from the actress Elisabeth Taylor in mind, since the evening light reminds us in this architectural diamond of the luminosity that characterizes the entire city.
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«Breathe Paris. Nourish the soul.» (Victor Hugo)
«Breathe Paris. Nourish the soul.» (Victor Hugo)
Paris has that he ne sais quoi that captures with subtlety. As far as the eye can see, surprise is guaranteed. Maybe it is the majesty of its architecture: the Eiffel Tower, Versailles, the Paris Opera, Notre Dame… or those cafes that we all have in our ideology, with their beautiful terraces and exquisite croissants and pains au chocolat.
It could also be its innate elegance when it comes to dressing and its know-how, as well as the exquisiteness of its gastronomy, so well accompanied by its wines and champagnes.
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«Paris is always a good idea.» (Audrey Hepburn)
«Paris is always a good idea,» said Audrey Hepburn. If there is one actress who can never stop associating herself with Paris, it is her.
The actress who starred in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Sabrina or Encounter in Paris left beautiful scenes recorded on the streets of Paris in the hearts of many viewers. So much so that itineraries have even been organized around the French capital following the settings where the films he shot there were recorded.
The elegance for which Hepburn has always been noted is also a trait that is associated with the city of Paris.
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«Paris was a museum that exhibited exactly itself.» (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Paris exudes art from every corner and everything in it is a reflection of its personality. It is showing yourself, with authenticity. A city with its own soul or, as the American writer of Greek descent Jeffrey Eugenides put it: «Paris was a museum that exhibited exactly itself.»
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«Paris is a place where we can forget, reinvent, eliminate the dead weight of our past.» (Michael Simkin)
Everything is possible in Paris. By losing ourselves in its streets and letting ourselves be imbued by its magic, it seems that we can always start again. Maybe that’s how Michael Simkin felt when he said that «Paris is a place where we can forget, reinvent, eliminate the dead weight of our past.»
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«Paris answers everything the heart desires.» (Frédéric Chopin)
The remains of the great Polish composer rest in the beautiful Père-Lachaise cemetery, in Paris. Frédéric Chopin moved to the French capital at the age of twenty-one and lived there until his death eighteen years later. «Paris responds to everything the heart desires,» he said about the city that welcomed him.
Paris has that something that warms the heart. Sitting on one of its terraces and watching life go by reminds us of the importance of knowing how to stop in the middle of the hustle and bustle, of stopping to enjoy and stopping to contemplate the beauty that surrounds us. Also of the beauty of the moment.
Other short and beautiful phrases from Paris to discover its essence
8. «We will always have Paris.» Humphrey Bogart
One of the most mythical phrases about Paris is from the character Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, when he tells Ingrid Bergman «We will always have Paris» at the end of Casablanca, the film by Michael Curtiz that has remained one of the great milestones in the history of cinema.
9. «There are only two places in the world where we can live happily: at home and in Paris.» (Ernest Hemingway)
Ernest Hemingway, the author of Paris was a partywas another lover of the French capital. He lived there with his wife and newborn son in the twenties, on Rue du Cardinal Lemoine.
10. «Flowers never look so beautiful as at the Paris market.» (Agatha Christie)
11. «London is an enigma. Paris is an explanation.» (Gilbert K Chesterton)
12. «A walk through Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty and the meaning of life.» (Thomas Jefferson)
13. «Paris is the only city in the world where starvation is still considered an art.» Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Paris is the bohemian city par excellence and art comes first, even if it doesn’t provide food, ironically the Spanish writer.
14. «The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and joyful, I heard her heart’s laughter in every café on the street.» (Oscar Hammerstein II)
The cafes and the joy that is breathed in them is one of the things that immediately attracts those who visit Paris. Also to the American librettist.
15. «When spring comes to Paris, the humblest mortal must feel that he lives in paradise.» (Henry Miller)
Paris shines all year round, but in spring it fell in love with the famous American novelist Henry Miller, who lived in bohemian Paris in the 1940s, until the outbreak of World War II.
16.»What an immense impression Paris made on me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!» (Charles Dickens)
Paris is one of the two cities in which the plot of A Tale of Two Cities, which Charles Dickens wrote in the second half of the 19th century, takes place at the dawn of the French Revolution.
17. «Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never be truly elegant.» (Honoré de Balzac)
The elegance of Paris has filled pages and pages in fashion magazines but great French authors have also praised it.
18. «Good conversationalists are only found in Paris.» (Francois Villon)
The French have a reputation for being good conversationalists and one imagines the cafes in Paris full of them. Although you only need to walk through the streets and realize that conversations echo on every corner.
19. «In Paris, our lives are a masked ball.» (Gaston Leroux)
20. «The greatest danger of Paris is that it is extremely stimulating» (TS Eliot)
21.»There is only one Paris and no matter how difficult it is to live here, even if the situation gets worse and more difficult, the French air clears the mind and does good, a lot of good.«vincent van gogh
22. «With an apple, I will surprise Paris.» (Paul Cezanne)
23. «It’s true. You never forget your first love, and for me, my first love will always be Paris.» (Caitriona Balfe)
24. «Paris is the most beautiful city in the world. It brings tears to your eyes.» (Lee Radziwill)
