“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.”
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“What interests me is the transformation, not the monument. I don't construct ruins, but I feel ruins are moments when things show themselves. A ruin is not a catastrophe. It is the moment when things can start again.”
Quoted in Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshua-schwartz/in-the-beginning-there-was-not_b_1703387.html
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German painter and sculptor 1945Related quotes
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