Quotes About New York City Architecture

#1. When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city.

Christian De Portzamparc

#2. If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

Asger Jorn

#3. Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn't work out If so you can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don't ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed.

Joyce Meyer

#4. You don't smoke do you?"
"No, why?"
"They're afraid of fire."
"Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes."
I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted ...

Laurell K. Hamilton

#5. My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

Faye Moskowitz

#6. That's Manhattan today - all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick now, a sleight-of-hand to draw your eye from the truth, as illusory as a bodybuilder with osteoporosis.

Andrew Vachss

#7. We all have ups and downs in our career, and as an actor going through a rough patch, all I can do is keep working as hard as I can and hope for the best.

Uday Kiran

#8. Beauty makes life easier. People want to do things for you. They want to marry you and pay for everything.

Jerry Hall

#9. He says: 'it doesn't matter. What I know is that I could do this with you' - he makes a movement with his hands like a baker, kneading a loaf of bread - 'and afterwards you'd be different.

Jean Rhys

#10. I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

Lewis Thomas

#11. It was colorful and elaborate - Kayla's website, not the puke

Robin Brande

#12. For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce.
... how to set yourself spinning?

Annie Dillard

#13. What was the purpose of a woman monster?
It came out in a whisper. 'What am I for?

Kristin Cashore

#14. As I grow through love, so grows my joy, ever more present, ever more constant.

M. Scott Peck

#15. The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.

Barbara Feldon

#16. None are happy but by anticipation of change.

Samuel Johnson

#17. New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

Francis Picabia

#18. It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.

Satya Nadella