Art Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Marshall Berman

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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

There's nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

— Joseph Brodsky

I'm fascinated by the ruins and remains of industrialisation.

— Johann Johannsson

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

— John Webster

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

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing…

— Alfred Jarry

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

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

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

— Mohsin Hamid