Lewis Mumford Quotes

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.

Destiny and history are untidy.

'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

People think that it is negative, but in fact, chaos can be very fertile.

In chaos, there is fertility.

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

I like to try new stuff and experiment. That's why I think it's entertaining to watch my matches, because you never know what I'm going to do, and you see things that you've never seen before.

My life and career have been a big improvisation.

I'm flying by the seat of my pants, never creating with a thought to what's up ahead!

There's no blueprint for success in rock'n'roll.

Part of what Faith No More shows are is chaos and unpredictability.