Every act of creation is first of all an action of destruction.

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

Destruction is essential to construction. If we want to build the new, we must be willing to let the old burn. [...]

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

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

"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." — Pablo Picasso

To the destruction of what is.

Destruction always comes before creation.

Destruction, best expressed in this age in which I write as terrorism, is truly there for its own sake, but the pretense of religion or secular patriotism converts the destructive into the speciously creative.

In every life, whatever you do, you either destroy or create.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion

The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!

We can destroy only as creators

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.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.