Cities Quote by Federico Pena

One great building does not make a great city.

— Thomas Heatherwick

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

— Aristotle

Critics build nothing.

— Robert Moses

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

— Raymond Chandler

I don't read the critics.

— Olivier Dahan

I don't listen to the critics.

— Ryan Tannehill

The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic…

— Paul Goldberger

We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to…

— Daniel Libeskind

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were…

— Jane Jacobs

But look what we have built ... This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

— Jane Jacobs

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

— Jacqueline Leo