Artistic Scene Quotes

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

Baltimore is wonderful. Super-weird city.

Buenos Aires is easily one of the most stylish cities in the world with its eclectic collection of neighborhoods, each with its own unique charm.

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities.

L.A. was just an inspiring kind of place to be. It felt like going to Paris in the Twenties and Thirties. Everybody's there. Everybody's hanging around. Everybody's talking about music.

The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.

There are lots of different sides to Brooklyn. It has so much character.

Atlanta's a great city to cultivate your own thing - from fashion to music to food.

Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.

I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.

Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was not so interesting. I think it's quite narrow-minded. There wasn't much encouragement or opportunities for any artist - not just Chinese artists.

Melbourne is my type of city, much more so than Sydney.

Any place where the Jewish district is the hipster district is a very surreal and awesome place.

I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.