Barbara Kruger Quotes

New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.

Never lived in L.A. I've always done the New York thing.

In New York, the theater is a destination point. In Los Angeles, no matter how provocative, how successful, how star-studded the theater event may be, it is, at best, a second-class citizen.

There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be.

I would say New York, Chicago, Memphis, and Los Angeles were my favorites.

I would describe Los Angeles as actually not having taste. In New York, there's taste. But you have to remember that taste is censorship. It's a form of restriction.

New York, it's people. It's grit. It's diversity of people. It's diversity of industry. In L.A. everyone's looking over their shoulder because one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills just walked in. They value the wrong things.

No other American city is so intensely American as New York.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York's most charming neighborhoods.

In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It's like group therapy.

In L.A., you can put out a craft-service table anywhere, and it's no big deal. But in New York, people who walk by it on the street get really angry about it.

When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.

New York has the biggest, most eclectic collection of people in the world.

Coming from New York, you're kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state.

I've experienced, in general, in New York, people cut to the chase a little more, and they're a little bit more straightforward. In L.A. I've experienced more wishy-washiness. I will say, though, that the people that are actually from L.A. - like, born and raised in L.A. - are the real nice and genuine people.

Content that's generated out of America, whether it be film or music, has, in my opinion, much greater impact in sustaining our credibility and our place as a cultural capital. This is our great export.

I prefer Los Angeles just because I live there and my family's there. But I think New York is just kind of the center of the world.

New York City is a big city but a small city when it comes to theater.

Los Angeles doesn't have as vital a theatre as New York does. And that's something that really interests me.

In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.

I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.

Los Angeles has always been one of America's most entrepreneurial cities, but it is hard to recognize this because of how hardwired, literally, 'entpreneurism' has become.