Art Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“And then he grasped that this city of machines, this city of sobriety, this fanatic for work, sought, at night, the mighty counterpoise to…

— Thea von Harbou

“Oxford It is well that there are palaces of peace And discipline and dreaming and desire, Lest we forget our heritage and cease The…

— C.S. Lewis

“There’s no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through its sights,…

— Henry Mosquera

“What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people.”

— Victor Hugo

“Seven Cities was an ancient civilization, steeped in the power of antiquity, where Ascendants once walked on every trader track, every footpath, every lost…

— Steven Erikson

“This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“I shall introduce this city and its occupants as a series of objects whose relationship cannot be told with any certainty. Though violence may…

— Jesse Ball

“A house of simple people which stands empty and silent in the vast Southern country morning sunlight, and everything which on this morning in…

— James Agee

“It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, harsh, and violent…

— Thomas Wolfe

“The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It…

— Anne LaBastille

“The city’s a heart, I said, and in that a heart and a city were sutured into a third thing, a heartish city, and…

— China Miéville

“The city seems to be a labyrinth that can be ordered. The world is an infinite series of curvatures or inflections, and the entire…

— Gilles Deleuze