Stephen Sondheim Quotes

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

When we separate music from life we get art.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

The aim of art is to understand and establish order, which is another form of beauty.

Life and art are inseparable.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

Music creates order out of chaos.

The secret of life is in art.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

I call architecture frozen music.

Art is significant deformity.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Life has to have the plenitude of art.