New York City

Famous quotes containing the words york and/or city:

“The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)