Robert Quillen Quotes

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

We are out to rebuild the world.

The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

It's time to tear up the canvas and start over. It's time for the overhaul of humanity.

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

Our show is about starting over.

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

I really felt it was time for a new vision.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric.

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

I'm interested in what's new. I'm interested in change. I'm interested in a different game in life.