Famous quotes containing the words york and/or state:
“New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)