Aesthetic Quote by Ada Louise Huxtable

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no.…

— Julian Casablancas

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop.…

— M.I.A

NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries

— Bill de Blasio

[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just…

— Donald Trump

New York City has changed enormously. My gut impression of it now is that it's like being in a sci-fi novel: 'Blade Runner' syndrome.…

— Gerard Malanga

I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky…

— Freya Stark

The energy that New York exudes is as much the light of extinguished souls as it is the spark of individual enterprise. And while…

— Amanda Foreman

Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.

— Christo

The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred…

— Jerry Saltz

When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic…

— Jane Jacobs

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different…

— Ai Weiwei

The city keeps reinventing itself. And each generation thinks, as they enter it, that they've missed the best of it, and then they become…

— Jules Feiffer