Becomes Quote by Thom Mayne

I think there's tons of life and excitement in Paris. There are lots of old people and young people creating sexy new culture, but…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds…

— Joe Elliott

Paris is different from LA in regards to its historical architecture. I think that's what gives Paris it's charm and beauty.

— Kenya Kinski-Jones

New ideas often need old buildings.

— Jane Jacobs

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that…

— Allen Ginsberg

For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

— Jeff Lindsay

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

— Charles Baudelaire

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them…

— Christian de Portzamparc

New ideas must use old buildings

— Jane Jacobs

“The charm of a city, now we come to it, is not unlike the charm of flowers. It partly depends on seeing time creep…

— Robert Doisneau

It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you…

— Clarence Clemons

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

— Michael Simkins