Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
He, who can create, abhors destruction.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
A human being is a being who is constantly ‘under construction,’ but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.