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• A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. – Margaret Mead • A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. – Margaret Mead • A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. – Aristotle • A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. – Walt Whitman • A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. – Benjamin Disraeli • A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. – Aldous Huxley • A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz. . . This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book. – Tom Piazza • A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach. – Mason Cooley • A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls – whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise. – Mark Helprin • A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! – Charles Dickens • All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. – Christopher Morley • All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,–is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. – Tacitus • America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. – C. Wright Mills • And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us. – Pablo Neruda • Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another. – Plato • As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. – Albert Camus • As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement. – Mason Cooley • As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside inthe White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people. – Jane Swisshelm

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This is the sacking of cities. – Jane Jacobs • But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities. – Jane Jacobs • Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. – Nelson Algren • Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It’s the most theatrically corrupt. – Studs Terkel • Chicago is the great American city, New York is one of the capitals of the world, and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic; San Francisco is a lady – Norman Mailer • Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America. – Charles Edward Merriam • Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place. – A. J. Liebling • Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have – Cincinnati sounds worse. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. • Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population. – Carlo Ratti • Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake. – Jean Baudrillard • Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth. – Geoffrey West • Cities are the abyss of the human species. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Cities have to realize that whatever the federal government is going to do, its not going to be enough. And cities that proactively take control of their own quality of life initiatives are going to be the cities that ultimately attract the highly talented young people and create the jobs. – Mick Cornett • Cities tolerate crazy people. Companies don’t. – Geoffrey West • Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. – Rupert Brooke • City and country — each has its own beauty and its own pain. Some of the smallness of small towns — cattiness, everybody knowing everybody’s business — that can be challenging. And cities can be challenging, because no one can connect except electronically. – William P. Young • City life is millions of people being lonesome together. – Henry David Thoreau • City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age. – Leon Trotsky • City of rest! – as it seems to our modern senses, – how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice! – Mary Augusta Ward • City wits, country humorists. – Mason Cooley • Dinocrates did not leave the king, but followed him into Egypt. There Alexander, observing a harbor rendered safe by nature, an excellent center for trade, cornfields throughout all Egypt, and the great usefulness of the mighty river Nile, ordered him to build the city of Alexandria, named after the king. This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous. – Marcus Vitruvius Pollio • During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity. – Sal Albanese • Even cities have their graves! – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. – Frank Lloyd Wright • 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. – John Berger • Every city is a living body. – Saint Augustine • Everything is real, except Beika City – Gosho Aoyama • Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city. – Plato • First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a – village, the “tough” among cities, a spectacle for the nation. – Lincoln Steffens • Great Homer’s birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame. – Thomas Seward • He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.] – Suetonius • Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation’s freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of big shoulders. – Carl Sandburg • How well does your experience of the sacred in nature enable you to cope more effectively with the problems of mankind when you come back to the city? – Willi Unsoeld • I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I’m sick of the job-it’s a thankless one and full of grief. I’ve been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor. – Al Capone • I dreamed in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dreamed that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love—it led the rest; It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words. – Walt Whitman • I get out of the taxi and it’s probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York. – Milos Forman • I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working. – J. C. Chandor • I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking. – Oliver Goldsmith • I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all. – Michelangelo • I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. – Rudyard Kipling • I know this year hasn’t gone as we’d all like it. But please, please, everyone do not forget about that 2013 season – the worst to first, the tragedy of the Boston Marathon, everyone rallying around the city, the finish line, the duck boats, everything, celebrating at home. Might be down a little bit in the win/loss column right now, but do not let that erase any of those memories from last year that I get to wear a ring on my finger for. I’m proud to be a Red Sox for those times. – Jonny Gomes • I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture. – Lord Byron • I personally object to the veil on aesthetic as well as other grounds; but I must admit that, for instance in the suburbs of American cities, I have often seen women attired more sloppily than our Persian women normally are. – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi • I really like Kansas City Royals stadium – Kauffman Stadium. – Bert Blyleven • I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out. – Charles Dickens • I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly. – Henry David Thoreau • If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas. – Martin Luther King, Jr. • If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it’s found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don’t care, but they’re massively outnumbered by the people who do. – Andy Weir • If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. – Charles Caleb Colton • I’m not defending what Cory Booker said. I’m saying I understand why he has to kiss the asses of the rich people on Wall Street, because there’s no other way to keep his city afloat. – Bill Maher • In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy. – Mason Cooley • In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out. – O. Henry • In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. – Erica Jong • It’s an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world – Oscar Wilde • It’s one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline. – Will Rogers • I’ve lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness. – Lapo Elkann • I’ve never seen a tornado and I’ve lived in Oklahoma City basically my whole life. It’s not like we’re infested with them on a continual basis. But you learn to live with the warnings. And you learn what to do if one is coming your way. And then you cross your fingers and make the best judgments you can. – Mick Cornett • I’ve reported murders, scandals, marriages, premieres and national political conventions. I’ve been amused, intrigued, outraged, enthralled and exasperated by Chicago. And I’ve come to love this American giant, viewing it as the most misunderstood, most underrated city in the world. There is none other quite like my City of Big Shoulders. – Irv Kupcinet • I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there. That’s how I saw it, and see it still. – Ronald Reagan • Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. – Rainer Maria Rilke • Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down. – Henry Louis Gates • Knowledge and power in the city; peace and decency in the country. – Mason Cooley • Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Life is a journey, not a home; a road, not a city of habitation; and the enjoyments and blessings we have are but little inns on the roadside of life, where we may be refreshed for a moment, that we may with new strength press on to the end – to the rest that remaineth for the people of God. – Horatius Bonar • Man is the end of nature; nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as he; no moss, no lichen is so easilyborn; and he takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore, as an army encamps in a desert, and where all was just now blowing sand, creates a white city in an hour, a government, a market, a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Man’s course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city. – Alexander MacLaren • Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia … Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. – Marcus Vitruvius Pollio • Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact. – Nicolas Chamfort • Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it’s wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don’t avoid. – Ray Comfort • Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities – especially visually – with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it. – Barry McGee • Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called it, was headier than ever. Half the city’s skill and aspirations seemed to go into the propagation of motion. – Jan Morris • My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here. – Oprah Winfrey • New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate. – Harry Connick, Jr. • New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject–art, money, sex, food, health. – Mason Cooley • New York now leads the world’s great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn’t make a sudden move. – David Letterman • 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 • No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning. – Cyril Connolly • No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school – John Amos Comenius • Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance – nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city – as one loses oneself in a forest – that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest. – Walter Benjamin • One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the ’70s. – Martin Scorsese • One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge. – Friedrich Nietzsche • Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities. – Jack Dangermond • Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend. – William Butler Yeats • Reclusive? The inner city will secure your privacy better than any desert cave. – Mason Cooley • Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans. – John Steinbeck • Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. – Giotto di Bondone • Society’ in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, ‘good for this generation only,’ and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy. – Henry Adams • Suicide by carbon monoxide used to be done in the garage. Now, all you have to do is go to Mexico City and inhale. – Richard Bayan • That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin. – William Shakespeare • That’s great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you’d want to spend more than three hours in. – Jerry Della Femina • The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment. – Mick Cornett • The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. – Italo Calvino • The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. – Lewis Mumford • The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,–travel a whole day together,–looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there. – Oscar Wilde • The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It’s the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism. – Jean Baudrillard • The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin • The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. – Margaret Mead • The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind. – Lewis Mumford • The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. – Desmond Morris • The City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night. – Toni Morrison • The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with the business of the city so much competition, so much rivalry, so much necessity for industry, that I think it is a perpetual, chronic, wholesale violation of natural law. There are ten men that can succeed in the country, where there is one that can succeed in the city. – Henry Ward Beecher • The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country. – Theodore Roosevelt • The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. – Euripides • The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps. – Mao Zedong • The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world. – Walt Whitman • The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers. – Plato • The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. – John Gunther • The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. – Charles Baudelaire • The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,–the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton • The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky. – Henry Adams • The people are the city. – William Shakespeare • The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears – as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy. – Frank Lloyd Wright • The smaller the town the more important the ball club was. But if you beat a bigger town they’d practically hand you the key to the city. Any if you lost a game by making an error in the ninth or something like that, well, the best thing to do was just pack your grip and hit the road, because they’d never let you forget it. – Smoky Joe Wood • The spoiled superstar brat wouldn’t get far in Oklahoma City. We’re very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life. – Mick Cornett • The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. – Federico Garcia Lorca • The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils. – Henry David Thoreau • There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful, like downtown Chicago. Cities are too big and too rich for beauty; they have outgrown themselves too many times. – Noel Perrin • There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer. – Edward Hoagland There’s nothing that builds up a toil-weary soul Like a day on a stream, Back on the banks of the old fishing hole Where a fellow can dream. There’s nothing so good for a man as to flee From the city and lie Full length in the shade of a whispering tree And gaze at the sky. . . . . It is good for the world that men hunger to go To the banks of a stream, And weary of sham and of pomp and of show They have somewhere to dream. For this life would be dreary and sordid and base Did they not now and then Seek refreshment and calm in God’s wide, open space And come back to be men. – Edgar Guest • This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are. – Plato • This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. – William Wordsworth • To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. – Frank Lloyd Wright • To one who has been long in city pent, ’Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. – John Keats • Tower’d cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. – John Milton • Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. – Italo Calvino • Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. – John F. Kennedy • We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we’ve been living in cities, we’ve become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land. – Sebastiao Salgado • We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost. – Hubert H. Humphrey • We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time. – Bryant H. McGill • We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don’t have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That’s how great our traffic flows. – Mick Cornett • We do not look in great cities for our best morality. – Jane Austen • We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create from – from a physicist’s viewpoint, entropy, meaning all of those bad things that we feel are engulfing us. – Geoffrey West • We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said ‘Oklahoma City,’ chances are the next word out of your mouth was ‘bombing.’ – Mick Cornett • We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear. – George Lincoln Rockwell • We thought of universities as the cathedrals of the modern world. In the middle ages, the cathedral was the center and symbol of the city. In the modern world, its place could be taken by the university. – Roger Revelle • We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. – John F. Kennedy • We’re crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That’s just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco. – John Lennon • We’re here because we want to go to the Orient House. We’re here because this is our city. It’s an occupied city, I know. 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At Haute Culture we can’t think of any other 20th-century artist of whom we would like to read 50 facts about, let alone write them. But Frida Kahlo was much more than a painter, more than a feminist, more than a fashion icon. Her paintings themselves have stood the test of time and are arguably more intriguing to a modern audience than they were in her time and they certainly become richer the more you know of her fascinating life story. Frida’s 47 years were often filled with pain but always fuelled by passion. Read on to discover 50 incredible facts on this fascinating woman’s life, loves and legacy.

Frida Kahlo Art Facts

Frida was a self-taught artist and received no formal art training or education. She learnt how to paint as a cure for boredom whilst being bed bound during her recovery from a near-fatal accident.

She did not consider herself a surrealist artist. Surrealism, during its heyday, was defined as art inspired by the unconscious mind. Unlike surrealist artists such a Salvador Dali and René Magritte, Frida Kahlo stated “I never painted my dreams. I painted my own reality.”

She was the original queen of the selfie, painting over fifty-five self-portraits.

The colours used in her paintings represented her emotions.

Frida often painted directly onto tin in order to emulate traditional Mexican folk art. She also used a variety of mixed media in her works such as newspaper cuttings, photos and shells.

The vast majority of her works are very small in scale.

Frida was a trailblazer for her time. It was very rare for an artist to make their art so personal; the ill health and emotional traumas that directly influenced her work were acknowledged as being completely original for their time. She painted herself as she felt and she wanted to make her feelings known.

Her 1939 painting Dos desnudos en el bosque (La tierra misma) sold for over $8 million in 2016, the highest auction price for any work by a Latin American artist.

Frida was the first Mexican artist to sell her work to a major international museum: The Frame, 1938 was purchased by The Louvre Museum in Paris the same year.

She once arrived at her solo exhibition in her own four-poster bed.

Andre Breton famously referred to Frida’s art as “A ribbon around a bomb”.

Frida did not start to take her painting seriously until much later on in her life.

“I am my own muse. I am the subject that I know best, the subject I want to know better.”

– Frida Kahlo.

Frida Kahlo standing in front of her largest self-portrait Las Dos Fridas 1939. Photo Credit: Bettmann/CORBIS.

Frida Kahlo Fashion Facts

The majority of Frida’s wardrobe and many of her other personal possessions were kept locked away in a bathroom for fifty years. (Click here to read our post on How Frida Kahlo Used Fashion To Build Her Legacy)

Frida was famous for shunning mainstream contemporary fashions in favour of wearing traditional Mexican indigenous dress.

She dressed not only as a way to express her personal style but also to express her political and feminist beliefs. The majority of Frida’s iconic outfits were from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a region in the south of Mexico famous for its powerful matriarchal society.

She would customise her own clothes with ribbons, bells and trinkets.

Pablo Picasso made a pair of earrings for Frida.

Parisian fashion design Elsa Schiaparelli designed a dress titled Madame Rivera in Frida’s honour.

She was twice featured in Vogue magazine.

Frida choose flamboyant clothes with lots of pattern colour and decoration as a tool to conceal her disabilities.

She dressed as much to impress her husband, who adored traditional attire, as she did for herself.

Throughout her life she frequently played with society’s gender boundaries surrounding fashion at the time by wearing men’s garments such as work shirts, dungarees, denim and suits.

Dressing elaborately was not just for public show. Frida would wear her dazzling dresses, Aztec jewellery and hair full of flowers around the house to do daily chores and paint in her studio.

“The gringas really like me a lot and pay close attention to all the dresses and rebozos that I brought with me, their jaws drop at the sight of my jade necklaces.” – Frida Kahlo.

Frida Kahlo dressed in her daily attire two years before her death. Bernice Kolko, 1952

Frida Kahlo Relationship Facts

Frida adored her father, Guillermo Kahlo, who was a photographer for the Mexican government. Her father proclaimed Frida as his favourite child.

However, she had a tense relationship with her mother who she referred to as being “hysterically religious”.

Frida had three sisters; Matilde, Adriana, and Cristina. Her younger sister, Cristina, whom she also considered to be her best friend, broke her heart by having a love affair with her husband Diego in 1934.

Frida’s husband Diego Rivera was one of the most famous artists in the world at the time of their marriage.

Frida believed, without a shadow of a doubt, that she and her husband Diego Rivera were soul mates,. This is why she consistently tolerated his behaviour towards her.

Although Frida did not officially “Come Out” there are multiple reports of Frida having romantic relationships with both men and women. The most famous of these was the French/American entertainer Josephine Baker.

Frida and Diego were married, divorced and married a second time only one year after their divorce. They mutually acknowledged that they couldn’t live without each other. Part of the re-marriage agreement was that they would abstain from having sex with each other.

The couple had countless affairs with other people during their marriage. Frida’s longest affair (around 20 years) was with the famous fashion photographer Nickolas Muray. Her most controversial affair was with their mutual friend, the exiled Russian Revolutionist Leon Trotsky. Frida and Diego lived in separate houses which were only joined by a rooftop bridge that allowed them to entertain their guests privately.

Frida’s Doctor, Dr Leo Eloesser, was one of her closest lifelong friends. They frequently wrote letters to each other for most of her life.

Frida kept many pets such as dogs, deer, birds and monkeys, which most critics believe were substitutes for the children she could not have.

“Make love. Take a bath. Make Love again.” – Frida Kahlo.

Leon Trotsky (second right) and his wife Natalya Sedova (far left) are welcomed to Tampico Harbour, Mexico by Frida Kahlo and the US Trotskyist leader Max Shachtman, January 1937. Photo credit: Getty Images/Gamma-Keystone.

Frida Kahlo Heath Facts

Frida contracted polio when she was six years old which resulted in a shorter and more withered left leg.

At the age of 18, Frida was in a tragic bus accident which almost left her for dead. The collision resulted in multiple full body breaks and fractures to her spine, legs and pelvis which would inhibit her from carrying a child to term and continue to slowly kill her over the next twenty-eight years.

Due to the lack of contraception and her inability to carry a child to term Frida was the victim of numerous miscarriages. The most notable miscarriage took place in Detroit in 1932 which subsequently resulted in Frida producing some of the most original and harrowing works of the twentieth century.

She was in pain for most of her life and underwent over thirty operations and procedures to try to correct her ever-deteriorating body, she wrote in her diary and in a letter to a friend that she felt death frequently dancing around her bed.

She was suspended for the ceiling with bags of sand tied to her feet.

In 1950, she spent nine months in the hospital due to the presence of gangrene which eventually saw her left leg amputated.

Towards the latter years of her life, she became drug and alcohol dependent due to the incredible physical and emotional pain she endured from being repeatedly bed bound for months at a time.

She lied about her age. Frida was born in 1907 but told people she was born in 1910 to give the impression that she was born during the same year that the Mexican Revolution began.

She died in her bed of a pulmonary embolism when she was just 47 years old. She knew the end was in sight and wrote in her diary “I hope the exit is joyful – and I hope never to return – Frida”, just a few days before passing.

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly.” – Frida Kahlo.

Frida painting in her bed, Anonymous, 1940. Photo Credit: Frida Kahlo Museum

Frida Kahlo’s Philosophy Facts

Frida was a feminist and her ideals made a very unique woman for her time. She lived and travelled alone, she earned her own money by making her own art, she expressed her emotions, sexuality and political views freely and fiercely fought for equality throughout her life.

She was a communist and a part of the Young Communist League and the Mexican Communist Party. Frida believed that communism meant community and wished for the masses to rise up and take leadership of Mexico.

Frida was, at heart, an optimist. She was a fighter and rarely let the poor fate she was served both physically and romantically get the better of her.

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” – Frida Kahlo.

Frida Kahlo laying down by Nickolas Muray. Photo credit: Google Arts and Culture

Frida Kahlo’s Loves in Life

Frida was an avid writer. She kept a diary and had many pen friends.

She collected dolls and traditional Mexican folk art.

She loved to entertain guests by cooking big meals and hosting frequent parties.

She had a deep love of music and would dance whenever she was able.

Frida was an incredibly passionate and hopelessly romantic woman. Diego was the greatest love of her life and she never gave up on him.

“I love you more than my own skin and even though you don’t love me the same way, you love me anyways, don’t you? And if you don’t, I’ll always have the hope that you do, and I’m satisfied with that. Love me a little. I adore you.” – Frida Kahlo.

Frida Kahlo’s lipstick print on a photograph of her husband Diego Rivera by Anonymous, 1940. Photo credit: Frida Kahlo Museum

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