City Aesthetic Quotes

#1. Be rooted in the word of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king.

Shannon Hale

#3. There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life.

Daniel Wolpert

#4. Although I was born in Idaho and now live in New York, I definitely identify with the European aesthetic. Paris is my mecca; it's where I discovered my flair for fashion. But I pay rent and work in New York, so that is my home - I love the culture clash of the city.

Dree Hemingway

#5. In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#6. Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.

Ben Nicholson

#7. Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

Edward Hopper

#8. One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.

Gustave Flaubert

#9. Cruise through the gargantuan sites - YouTube, Amazon, Yahoo! - and it's as though modernism never existed. Twentieth-century print design never existed. European and Japanese design never existed. The Web's aesthetic might be called late-stage Atlantic City or early-stage Mall of America.

Virginia Heffernan

#10. I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

Max Beckmann

#11. Respect gay couples but no gay adoptions.

Mike Huckabee

#12. I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.

Tim Robbins

#13. Like Jean Genet, Robert was a terrible thief. Genet was caught and imprisoned for stealing rare volumes of Proust and rolls of silk from a shirt maker. Aesthetic thieves. I imagined his sense of horror and triumph as bits of Blake swirled into the sewers of New York City.

Patti Smith

#14. Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

Barack Obama

#16. I grew up in Malibu, so it's nice to be back home and be with my parents and sit and drive my car and listen to music and just chill out for a little bit.

Bella Hadid

#17. When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Madonna Ciccone

#18. For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.

Philippe Starck

#19. Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

John Le Carre