Nick Flynn Quotes

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.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

One of the great things about New York is this wonderful park we have.

I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

...Skyscraper National Park

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.

I found that through my life, living in the city of Toronto, I look above the Pizza Pizza sign, and I look above the other signs and window dressing, and I see evidence of a city that no longer exists in the keystones and the decorations that line the tops of buildings. That presence of the old city has always moved me.

I've always liked lost, old New York.

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

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

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

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park.

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

I love Columbus Circle. I rebelled against the construction for a while because I go back to the '70s. There was no Time Warner building. Now I've started to really like it.

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

Without a shadow of doubt, Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban public spaces in the world.

It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.

Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.

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

Chicago's a great city for filming. The city is so rich architecturally. I think that's part of what made 'Candyman' special.

You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important.

The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.