Cities Quote by Edward Weston

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

I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and…

— Barbara Hepworth

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which…

— John Berger

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They…

— Leon Krier

“Since landscape changes like this from country to country it must owe very little to Nature: Nature is no more than the canvas, and…

— Richard Hughes

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

— Jim Hodges

The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

— Ed McMahon

Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes…

— Rebecca Solnit

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

— Amiri Baraka

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

— Anne Rice

If we're talking about the urban landscape as an advanced, forward-thinking art form, there must be some intellectual thinking involved.

— Ma Yansong

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

— Charlotte Mason