Richard Rogers Quotes

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

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.

Good and bad make up a city.

East Side, West Side, all around the town

You will find in the streets of New York every variety of architecture, just as you find in its libraries all the literatures of the world, and in its theatres all the music, and in its houses all the decorative arts.

I wrote a book of essays about New York called 'The Colossus of New York,' but it's not about - you know, when I'm writing about rush hour or Central Park, it's not a black Central Park, it's just Central Park, and it's not a black rush hour, it's just rush hour.

I love, love writing about Los Angeles. I love exploring every part of it. And I find, rather than a burden, it's actually one of the most enjoyable parts of the writing process for me. I love everything about L.A. Okay, not the traffic. But I love the way it looks. I love the geography. I love the diversity.

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.

New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walked down the city and heard four or five different languages simultaneously. I think that's beautiful.

I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.

I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.

In New York, Kid Carter was pure vanilla for a city with stronger tastes.

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.

A city is like a family portrait - you don't tear it up if you don't like your uncle's nose.

There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks.

There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.

For me, God's country is sirens and subways and all kinds of ethnic groups trying to cross the street all at once.

There are many sides of the urban life that I dislike, but there are many sides I am deeply in love with and attached to.

I came to London constantly, working with Ninja Theory on 'DmC Devil May Cry,' and I kind of fell in love with this amazing architecture, where you have these buildings that have clearly been around a long time, and they have this amazing gothic look, and then on the first floor, it's a McDonald's!