George Barr McCutcheon Quotes

I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.

I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.

Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it.

Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure.

When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.

The kids in the Chicago public schools with me thought an engineer was a man who drove the trains on the elevated tracks.

After New York, Chicago is my favorite city. It's just this great mix of Europe and America. The friends I have there are smart and witty and fun.

In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.

I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff.

I think I ate at the John Hancock building - I loved the view.

Working on 'Candyman' in Chicago was probably the - I absolutely love this city, this city is so funky.

Chicago is a beautiful city with a wonderful skyline.

I think Chicago's a great city. Like New York, it's full of energy.

To get to the office every day, I either take a Lyft or have my wife drop me off. It's about a 15-minute drive from my house to the office.

While I was in Chicago, I rode my bike everywhere.

Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this or that delicious haunt of salubrity, the affairs of the world are then settled in little conclaves, with grater ease, rapidity, and certainty than in large parliaments or the dull chambers of public offices?

The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that the mind and senses jog on their way like passengers in a train with blinds down in an overcrowded carriage.

...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night.