“I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born.”
— Eric Kandel, neurobiologist, Nobel Prize-winner
““Vienna wasn’t just a city, it was a tone that either one carries forever in one’s soul or one does not. It was the most beautiful thing in my life... Vienna in winter and spring. The allés in Schönbrunn... Morning ridings in the Prater. I remember all of it exactly, and I wanted to see it again...”
— Sándor Márai, writer and journalist
“The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.”
— Karl Kraus, writer and journalist
“Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly. ”
