Quotes About Destruction

I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

Can't wait to date a supermodel, can't wait to sue my Dad. Can't wait to wreck a Ferrari, on the way to rehab.

They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.

A lot of the art that was destroyed was painted and created by Jews. A lot of that is gone because that was degenerative art. That's what Hitler was trying to get rid of.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.

More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

Your apocalypse was fab.

It's good to vandalize one's own work.

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

Art can only progress towards its own self-annihilation.

My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain.

Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian

madman and a monster.

Destruction and humiliation didn't matter. Only memory and integrity did. Was the hour I was living through right now different from the hour they were living through then? Did it matter? From what hour does one recite the evening Sh'ma?

Technological innovation makes human societies prosperous, but also involves the replacement of the old with the new, and the destruction of the economic privileges and political power of certain people.

There could be some economic growth without innovation, relying on existing technology, but it was growth without creative destruction. And it did not last.

Even though extractive institutions can generate some growth, they will usually not generate sustained economic growth, and certainly not the type of growth that is accompanied by creative destruction.

la rentabilidad de los imperios coloniales europeos a menudo se basaba en la destrucción de Estados independientes y de economías indígenas de todo el mundo o en la creación de instituciones extractivas esencialmente desde cero.

The reasoning of the Ming and Qing states for opposing international trade is by now familiar: the fear of creative destruction.

Absolutism and a lack of, or weak, political centralization are two different barriers to the spread of industry. But they are also connected; both are kept in place by fear of creative destruction and because the process of political centralization often creates a tendency toward absolutism.

La destrucción creativa redistribuye no solamente la renta y la riqueza, sino también el poder político

They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves. Most vampire never realize how pointless and savage war truly is. You were smart enough to see through the truth. Don't ever forget it.