Beauty Quote by Berenice Abbott

“Our city, these streets, I don't know why it makes me so depressed. That old familiar gloom that befalls the city dweller, regular as…

— Haruki Murakami

When it looks at great accomplishments, the world, bent on simplifying its images, likes best to look at the dramatic, picturesquemoments experienced by its…

— Stefan Zweig

...our cities of the present lack the outstanding symbol of national community which, we must therefore not be surprised to find, sees no symbol…

— Adolf Hitler

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a…

— Rebecca West

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs…

— Charles Dickens

“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

“Anything of even mildly antiquarian or historic interest was the target of destruction, and anyone who deplored the way the city was remaking itself…

— Stephen Birmingham

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their…

— Rem Koolhaas

“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

“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

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result…

— Janice Rogers Brown