Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes

I've always been drawn to city skylines.

Not only did America invent the skyscraper, it invented the skyline.

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.

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

I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.

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

New York is the great stone desert.

New York is vertical - all skyscrapers.

There's no place that communicates as much - and as quickly - as Times Square does. I see the roiling energy and its forceful race into the future. Of course, after 15 minutes, I want to get as far away from there as possible.

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

Shanghai was a peculiar city: so many people; everyone seemed to be working all the time. The skyline was beautiful.

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.

Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!

New York, oh my God, in my early 20s. I felt, this is home, this is really where I belong.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.

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.

London is a modern Babylon.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

New York's home. It's everything I'd want it to be. It's the most inspiring city I've ever been to, and I haven't been everywhere in the world, but I've been to quite a few places.

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

That New York energy, when you've got the benefit of great weather, it really is terrific. You look up at that skyline, and the Empire State Building is literally in your eyesight - there's nothing like that.