Urban Imagery Quotes

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity.

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

New York is a sucked orange.

If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.

Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.