Steven Knight Quotes

What an incredibly beautiful city at night Chicago is. Absolutely beautiful.

Left Bank Astana was beautiful at night, each building, it seemed, with its own nighttime color scheme and the street lamps all going full blast.

I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her.

I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.

One great building does not make a great city.

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.

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

There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.

I've always been drawn to city skylines.

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

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

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.

My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.

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.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Astana is a government city, not a tourist city, but all you do is tour it. You tour it in the cab from the airport, passing the gleaming new English-language Nazarbayev University and then the new soccer stadium, speed-skating track, and ten-thousand-seat velodrome.

There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.

New Orleans has these older orange lightbulbs, which are really gorgeous. But the main thing that stands out is actually the Superdome.

In Manchester, you don't have proper tall buildings. Or in Munich.

I have found Delhi so much more beautiful than Mumbai. South and central Delhi, especially, are just so beautiful - the roads, the trees, the buildings, the history.