Quotes About Urban

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.

I love to paint and beautify the most unexpected of places - I've painted everything from doorways to trains but have always wanted to do something really huge and different.

New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.

What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.

If you go to a building to skate, or if you go to these places to skate, you're told it's against the law in some cities. It's definitely a bummer. It's unfortunate.

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Sex and the City changed New York-New York's become a big shoe store now, unfortunately.

The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country.

I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.

If I'm honest, my heart and my belly are saying that you're more likely to find me in a greasy spoon than a pop-up, but some of this pop-up stuff is great!

Me and my mates go free running all the time. It's not my mum's favourite sport. I've probably jumped four metres on to grass and two metres between buildings. It's nothing like you see on the Internet, with guys jumping off skyscrapers, but it's fun.

As a nation, we spent eight billion hours sitting in our cars, waiting for lights to change, for the driver ahead to sneak into that parking spot, for an accident to be cleared.

In New York, people are pretty cool, and you don't catch a lot of grief. But in certain spots, man, it's over. If I stand in the same place for more than 20 minutes or 10 minutes or something, there'll be 40 people standing there, all screaming something different.

For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.

I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.

I walk out my front door in New York and I'm out on the street and there are people everywhere. L.A. is so much more spread out, so it's really easy in L.A. to have a little more isolation and to just not see as many people.

Chicago is an incredibly great city, but it was clear to me that greatness wasn't being spread to all our neighborhoods.

I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the best cities to walk that I've ever been in.

Sound sounds are terrible in the city, but it's great to listen and to walk and listen to people talk to each other. There are birds. You hear spring. I like listening to the city.

I actually walk through Washington Square Park a lot.

I accept House of Fraser cannot have 500,000 square feet in Birmingham. Honestly, you would need an Uber to take you round. It's ridiculous.

Gwanghwamun Square will be reborn as one for people.

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.