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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. (Henry Brooks Adams)
I believe in deeply ordered chaos. (Francis Bacon)
The urban world is full of chaotic compositions that seem to make sense in a way that earlier decades and centuries could never have imagined. (Nicoletta Baumeister)
Art is the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. (Saul Bellow)
-foreword to The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, 1987
In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves. (Saul Bellow)
Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls. (Robert Brault)
Chaos furnishes the building blocks for order, and order breaks down to replenish chaos. (Betty Brooks)
We live in a rainbow of chaos. (Paul Cezanne)
Painting is dancing with chaos. (Melanie Circle)
Chaos is order to which you do not have the key. (Robert Derr)
If chaos did not develop out of order we would have no reason to 'create,' to handle it, live within it and handle being surrounded by it. (Carolynn Doan)
-on seeing studio canvases...
...exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange. (Stephen Dunn)
We live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though this is how it sometimes appears. (M. C. Escher)
We adore chaos because we love to produce order. (M. C. Escher)
The creative process requires chaos before form emerges. (Marilyn Ferguson)
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The creation of true art requires some mysterious innate ability to thrive in chaos. (Sharon Hubbard)
Chaos is everywhere – and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio. (Eric Maisel)
Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds. (Rollo May)
Mozart let his music run off in chaotic directions but then always brought it back under control. (James McConnel)
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. (Henry Miller)
A painting that goes through a very abstract stage or "chaos" is a better painting in the end and the longer it stays abstract before the defining shapes are added, the better the painting. (Sandra Moore)
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
He searched disorder for its unifying principle. (Brian O'Doherty)
Out of chaos we make a world, a consequence of art, which in turn reveals our proper structure to us. (Richard Ozenfant)
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order. (Pablo Picasso)
My goal is to communicate the organization and beauty that exists in our universe underneath the appearance of random chaos. (Aleta Pippin)
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. (Katherine Anne Porter)
Beauty by confusion, truth by collision. (Daniel Richter)
Dada has reaped the harvest of confusion that it sowed. (Hans Richter)
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. (Friedrich Von Schlegel)
So quick bright things come to confusion. (William Shakespeare)
When you read and understand a poem, then you master chaos a little. (Stephen Spender)
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. (Kerry Thornley)
While creating, I sometimes have a small transistor radio, CNN News and PC music playing all at the same time. This gives me an opportunity to shut off and open the 4th track in my mind. (Milos Vujasinovic)
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