Figures Quote by Jonathan Dee

New York can be any city it wants to be.

— Nipsey Russell

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.

— Joan Didion

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the…

— Joan Didion

New York is all about people and the things people make.

— John Cariani

New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different…

— Ai Weiwei

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

— Seanan McGuire

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

— James M. Cain

There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces…

— Karan Mahajan

“We thought of [New York] as a free city, like one of those storied prewar tropical nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and…

— Lucy Sante

New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics,…

— Paul Goldberger

“The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms…

— Milan Kundera

“Real New York and imaginary New York aren't easily separated. The stuff of a city isn't only material; it's spiritual as well.”

— Siri Hustvedt