Art Quote by Julian Casablancas

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

— Tea Leoni

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

— M.I.A

We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely…

— Gaby Hoffmann

Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In…

— Madison Smartt Bell

There are lots of different sides to Brooklyn. It has so much character.

— Stephanie Beatriz

Usually I get a feel for cities real quick, but Brooklyn is different. It's something new every day. But that's what makes it so…

— Caris LeVert

New York City has changed enormously. My gut impression of it now is that it's like being in a sci-fi novel: 'Blade Runner' syndrome.…

— Gerard Malanga

Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to…

— Joe Elliott

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

— Jonathan Franzen

[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just…

— Donald Trump

I have a very unsatisfactory and incomplete knowledge of Brooklyn and cannot discuss specifically either what you can do here or what possibilities the…

— Gutzon Borglum

Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to…

— Rem Koolhaas