Beginning Quote by Anselm Kiefer

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

— Tadao Ando

We live ruins amid ruins.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization…

— John Cheever

Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there…

— J. B. Jackson

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements dissolve, and…

— Christopher Alexander

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build.…

— Rose Macaulay

We come from ruins, but we're not ruined,

— Marshall Berman

I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.

— Greg Kinnear

Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that…

— Alan Moore

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Ruin is when man-made has become part of nature.

— Marco Casagrande