Quotes on Chaos

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

Solve it before it happens. Order it before chaos emerges.

It is your restlessness that causes chaos.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

This is how it works _x000D_ You're young until you're not _x000D_ You love until you don't _x000D_ You try until you can't _x000D_ You laugh until you cry _x000D_ You cry until you laugh _x000D_ And everyone must breathe _x000D_ Until their dying breath.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order.

If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation of chaos and a longing to find the form appropriate to our times.

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?

The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we’re lucky.

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.