Cities Quote by Ai Weiwei

I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest…

— Ai Weiwei

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

— Farah Diba

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them…

— Christian de Portzamparc

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

— John Fowles

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

— Charles Bukowski

I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time.

— Lee Bermejo

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

— John Dryden

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

— Rumi

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

— Winston Churchill

I really don't like the city anymore. You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It's too tumultuous. It's too crazy.

— Maurice Sendak

What you spend years building, someone might destroy overnight. Build it anyway.

— Anonymous