Cities Quote by Anonymous

“The beauty of modern cities consists in a sense of their power, cruelty, impersonality, massiveness, + variety (as in New York or London) seen…

— Susan Sontag

It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.

— Rem Koolhaas

Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures…

— Renzo Piano

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

— Malcolm de Chazal

The urban, on the other hand, is often seen as more real and mundane, even though it is obviously far more recent in terms…

— Quentin S. Crisp

“When it is good, this is a city of fantastic strength, sophistication and beauty. It is like no other city in time or place.…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind…

— Wyndham Lewis

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

— Joseph Brodsky

We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect; a city of…

— Neil Gaiman

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

— Lori Lansens

Beautiful is difficult. I admire very much the courage of the people who have said, 'Let's do something different. Let's try to see if…

— Santiago Calatrava