Ancient Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

— Mohsin Hamid

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

— Joseph Joubert

“I sometimes wonder whether century-old ruins look so beautiful to us beacause they were *meant* to ruin in a beautiful way. There was a…

— Paul Collins

Well, there is something beautiful about ruins. I mean, in one sense it's not that different from going to Rome and looking at the…

— David Maraniss

London imbued me with an appreciation of the beauty and value of history in general. As it has evolved and grown, the city has…

— Hilary Farr

Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an…

— Santiago Calatrava

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except…

— Christopher Alexander

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

— John Webster

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures,…

— Gauri Khan

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds…

— Joe Elliott

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material,…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

— Henry David Thoreau