Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Cityscapes. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Cityscapes Quotes And Sayings by 92 Authors including Berenice Abbott,Steven Johnson,Louis Aragon,Thom Mayne,Michel De Certeau for you to enjoy and share.

Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001487934
Suppose we took a thousand negatives ...
combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000687386
A city is a kind of pattern-amplifying machine: its neighborhoods are a way of measuring and expressing the repeated behavior of larger collectivities - capturing information about group behavior, and sharing that information with the group.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000559822
Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity ...
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000907554
We're producing spaces that accommodate human activity. And what I'm interested in is not the styling of that, but the relationship of that as it enhances that activity. And that directly connects to ideas of city-making.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000573093
Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact ... The city panorama is a theoretical (ie visual) simulacrum: in short, a picture, of which the preconditions for feasibility are forgetfulness and a misunderstanding of processes.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001019310
A unitary urbanism - the synthesis of art and technology that we call for - must be constructed according to certain new values of life, values which now need to be distinguished and disseminated.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001605202
The bewildering beauty of Paris ...
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000357140
This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000821810
The city bursts with ideas as with traffic, a swirl of newness and surprise. Who can be bored in a city? If you are tired of one activity you can try something else, change your job, take your custom to another restaurant.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000430681
When an author creates a town in her novels, she spends a great deal of time visualizing the streets and buildings, landmarks and topography. And while the town becomes real in her imagination, it's rare for an author to see the place she's created actually spring to life.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000466609
I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001706759
The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000417174
The pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ...
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000067272
My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have some kind of a desire. It's a surviving game, people trying to survive on many different levels.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000434644
Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000272808
A city is built to resemble a conscious mind, a network that can calculate, administrate, manufacture. Ruins become the unconscious of a city, it's memory, unknown, darkness, lost lands, and in this truly bring it to life
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000411602
All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city as beautiful as Paris.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000941315
There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000142898
This landscape is animate: it moves, transposes, builds, proceeds, shifts, always going on, never coming back, and one can only retain it in vignettes, impressions caught in a flash, flipped through in succession, leaving a richness of images imprinted on a sunburned retina.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001430935
A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000822450
I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar, as a great scale model: the city as an avatar of itself.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000402025
This is one of the blessings of the urban nature project: without the overtly magnificent to stop us in our tracks, we must seek out the more subversively magnificent. Our sense of what constitutes wildness is expanded, and our sense of wonder along with it.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000143044
An uninterrupted view of the Paris skyline was spread out before her, like a giant landscape painting rendered in shades of blue-grey, charcoal and purple-tinted umber; the dreamy palette of shifting shadows at twilight. The blue hour.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000777043
When I'm in a city that's just clean, concrete lines, I get really short of breath and confused. It's much more interesting to me when nature is creeping back and tearing the mortar apart between the bricks.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000233693
[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001443231
Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000426526
It agitates me that the skyline there is forever our limit, I long for the power of unlimited vision ... If I could behold all I imagine.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000048853
In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001470493
A city isn't so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000777021
Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001439984
If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001629742
I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000690496
Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000437216
Look into my eyes and
You'll see my mind.
A tranquil city,
That rebuilt itself and left the past behind.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001022363
Urban public space is a stage for viewing the field of graphic design in its diversity. A mix of voices, from advertising to activism, compete for visibility.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001201957
The people are the city.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001015367
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000087317
Cities are natural, that's why they're everywhere. It's not like there's only one city, and everybody's like 'What the f**k is this?' No, cities are all over the place. They're natural. You know what's not natural? You, in the middle of the mountains, in the middle of the winter.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001644055
All great art is born of the metropolis.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001626764
London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000761801
We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000935038
Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001371852
The cool, grey city of love.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001663867
Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001763404
Give me a map and I'll build you a city.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000247289
A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001516796
Cities and roads
I have never seen
Are in the background of your photos
Yet, I don't feel
How faraway you are
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000350894
We live today in cities and suburbs whose form and character we did not choose. They were imposed upon us, by federal policy, local zoning laws, and the demands of the automobile.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001326407
There's no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through its sights, sounds and smells, and eventually, it'll teach you its rhythm.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000917080
books, teapots, thunderstorms, bridges, street musicians, coming attractions
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000317175
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001525850
Beautiful homes with beautiful flowers
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000544380
The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001001975
Landscape is history made visible.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001813815
I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000922446
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000934600
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000580128
Cities are erected on spiritual columns. Like giant mirrors, they reflect the hearts of their residents. If those hearts darken and lose faith, cities will lose their glamour.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001199097
Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001720658
What is the city but the people?
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001212591
I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000179263
At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000220633
The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000242286
I don't want to trudge up insane mountains or through war-torn lands. Just a nice stroll through the hill and dale. But now I walk everywhere in the city. Any city. You see everything you need to see in a lifetime. Every emotion. Every condition. Every fashion. Every glory.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000050698
A town, a landscape are when seen from afar a town and a landscape; but as one gets nearer, there are houses, trees, tiles leaves, grasses, ants, legs of ants and so on to infinity. All this is subsumed under the name of landscape.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000475390
I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001439772
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000522124
There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001724585
People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001798554
I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone ... a little countryside goes a long way, but it's almost like the DNA of a civilisation is in its cities.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001613610
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001028507
This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001447413
Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000777040
the city is humanity intensified - a magnifying glass that brings out the very best and worst of human nature
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000730959
So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there are a lot of different things in terms of architecture which assisted in the construction. Then every sci-fi movie I've grown up with from 'Blade Runner' to 'Aliens' and 'Star Wars.'
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000690513
I like to go out and see what a city's all about.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000024451
Night. Rain. A livid sky pierces the lacework
Of spires and towers, the silhouette of a Gothic
Town dim in the gray distance.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000731917
When you have city eyes you cannot see the invisible people, the men with elephantiasis of the balls and the beggars in boxcars don't impinge on you, and the concrete sections of future drainpipes don't look like dormitories.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000991072
Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000045830
Before them is the most beautiful city she has ever seen, has ever imagined. Golden rooftops shine brightly; windows made from diamonds and rubies gleam; tall buildings reach toward the clouds. She is again overwhelmed, this time with gratitude.
All this, for her.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000392026
A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000702388
As the serpentine expanse of glass drew open, the city seemed to wrap around them: rooftop gardens with stunted trees in pots, water towers like chunky flying saucers, the spires of distant skyscrapers.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000883841
When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000227632
...the city of Naples was like this: wonderful from a distance, but when seen close up, it was fragmentary, indefinable, and coarse...
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000939131
The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001339416
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees then names the streets after them.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000367850
I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000450451
What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to the clouds like a magic castle girdled by water? Its very touch of jumbled jaggedness, its towering-sided canyons, are its magnificence.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001399663
Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able fully to tell why, affect our spirits as we look at them with as many moods and meanings.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001698126
For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000541615
Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000268655
We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000402803
You know that feeling when you first arrive in a new city? However tired you are, however shattered by the flight, you are impatient to get out and sample the streets, the life, the action.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001347863
Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My works provide an imaginative space in which this can be challenged. It's like opening a window in a closed room.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001788580
every town, identical in the fundamentals and yet unique in the details. There
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000989682
Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001608083
When you're in a place like New York or D.C. you just can't beat it, and it's so hard to recreate because they are both such distinctive places.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000959488
In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with specific, local characteristics.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 000035335
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.
Cityscapes Quotes : pic 001303418
The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.