” In the creative act, as conceived by the moderns, destruction and creation are part and parcel of one and the same movement. There is no creation without destruction, nor, contrary to what people might have thought by regulary announcing the death of art, is there destruction without creation. The artist destroys in order to create, but concersely, we can also say that he creates in order to destroy. ”

– Catherine Grenier, Big Bang. Destruction et création dans l’art du xxe siècle, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle, 2005.