Chaos Quotes - Page 31

• If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude. Like the color white that includes all colors, they tend to bring together the entire range of human possibilities within themselves. Creativity allows for paradox, light, shadow, inconsistency, even chaos -and creative people experience both extremes with equal intensity.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Creativity, Light, Color White

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• If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Art, Human Experience, Poetry Is

  On his work in government. Quoted in Scott Donaldson Archibald MacLeish (1992).

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• I didn't take care of the kids. I took care of the interior decoration of the house. I wanted to be an architect, so I curated that aspect of things. In the middle of the chaos, I moved things around and rearranged everything to find my order.

  Giovanna Cau

  Kids, Order, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.

  Bridget Riley

  Thinking, Order, Magic

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• Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Art, Writing, Order

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• One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.

  Dean Koontz

  Men, Order, Ideas

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.227, Bantam

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• The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well.

  Germaine Greer

  Strong, Communication, Community

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of ANY specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.

  Thomas Sowell

  Self, Diversity, Black

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• He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.

  Horace Mann

  Law, Ideas, Welcome

  Horace Mann (1849). “Speech of Hon. Horace Mann, of Massachusetts, on Slavery and the Slave-trade in the District of Columbia: Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, February 23, 1849”, p.23

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• Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

  Maxim Gorky

  Men, Devastation, Evidence

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• War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

  Paullina Simons

  War, Lying, Men

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• n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.

  William Dean Howells

  Spring, Mean, Artist

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• It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos -- of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings -- in the vain hope that at the end he will see that the whole thing represents only one moment, one feeling, one person. A raging, trumpeting jungle of associations, and then I announce at the end of it, with a gesture of despair, "This is I!

  Conrad Aiken

  Memories, Writing, Always Trying

  Conrad Aiken (2015). “Blue Voyage: A Novel”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

  Frank Herbert

  Experts, Useless, Source

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

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• War is the most readily available form of chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Form, Available

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.188, Penguin

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• Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.

  Frank Herbert

  Order, Raw Materials, Humans

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.349, Penguin

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• A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone.

  Walter de La Mare

  Sweet, Night, Sorrow

  'The Ghost' (1918)

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• I lurch from chaos to chaos. I can't find my driving licence and my clothes are everywhere - cooking is the neatest thing I do.

  Nigella Lawson

  Clothes, Cooking, Driving

  "Envy, Lust and Gluttony - the Perfect Recipe" by Jane Warren, www.express.co.uk. September 20, 2007.

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• The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.

  Naum Gabo

  Order, Evil, Construction

  Naum Gabo (1957). “Gabo : constructions, sculpture, paintings, drawings, engravings : with introductory essays”

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• I operate out of confusion, towards clarity.

  Joel-Peter Witkin

  Confusion, Clarity

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• By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South Platte River: algae, broken concrete, jet contrails, the smell of crude oil. What I hope to document, though not at the expense of surface detail, is the form that underlies this apparent chaos.

  Robert Adam

  Dog, Oil, Rivers

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• Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden.

  Byron Katie

  Hurt, Hate, Believe

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• The peace that we are looking for is not peace that crumbles as soon as there is difficulty or chaos. Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that arises. Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

  Pema Chodron

  Two, Challenges, Inner Peace

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• I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.

  Timothy Shriver

  Cousin, Uncles, Past

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• Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Melting, Creation, Pot

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.151, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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