Here's the rub: Destruction is essential to construction. If we want to build the new, we must be willing to let the old burn. We must be committed to holding on to nothing but the truth.

The building of the true and beautiful means the destruction of the good enough.

Destruction is also creation.

To the destruction of what is.

Construction cumbers the ground with institutions made by busybodies. Destruction clears it and gives us breathing space and liberty.

We destroy to create. But we deny the value of everything we destroy, which serves to make its destruction easier on our consciences. All that we reshape to suit us is diminished, its original beauty for ever lost. We have no value system that does not beggar the world, that does not slaughter the beasts we share it with — as if we are the gods.

There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge.

To save something beautiful you must destroy it, so it does not fall, limp and degraded, from our miserable human hands.

Everything in Nature called destruction must be creation-a change from beauty to beauty.

If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.

Without destruction there can be no construction; without blockage there can be no flow; without stoppage there can be no movement.

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

..modern destruction begins where architectural structure is opened up and set into motion by colour relationships. The colour-planes, however, are always in orthogonal relationship.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.