Architecture Quote by Francis Picabia

New York City belongs to the people that was here and made New York City what it is.

— Eric Adams

City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed…

— Leon Trotsky

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just…

— Barbara Walters

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

— Christo

“New York City is the place where people come to invent, reinvent, or find the room they need to be who they wish to…

— Siri Hustvedt

New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky,…

— Roland Barthes

New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and…

— Yayoi Kusama

New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.

— Italo Calvino

New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy,…

— Rafael Yglesias

Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has…

— Will Self

New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.

— James M. Cain

“New York is a city built upon the cannibalized remains of its own past, constantly changing, constantly the same.”

— Seanan McGuire