“France was the mysterious home of art, the country who had given its inhabitants something called TASTE, which distinguished it from other people.” —Henry James
"The aim of French music is before all to please. The musical genius of France may be described as fantasy of the senses." —Claude Debussy
"When refinement and folk combine in a nation (as in Russia), that nation has found its music." —Francis Poulenc
"Less is more, and too much is always less." —Erik Satie
"We always begin by making the dresses of dreams. Then, we have to cut, trim, and remove, never add." —Gabrielle Chanel (a.k.a. Coco)
Café de Flore, just around the corner from Les Deux Magotson the Boulevard Saint-Germain, was one of the cafés where famous writers and artists came to work, drink and discuss art, life, and literature, including Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Fitzgerald, Cocteau, Satie among others.
"There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differes from that of any other... But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy." —Ernest Hemingway, "A Moveable Feast"
