Gerhard Richter Quotes

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write. We want it. It's how we create meaning.

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

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

Disorder brings about order.

There is no instant step from disorder to order.

making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Work is a way of bringing order to chaos, and there's a basic satisfaction in seeing that we are able to make something a little more coherent by the end of the day.

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.

The human word is neither immortal nor invulnerable; but it is the power that orders our chaos, and the light by which we live.

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

Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to be believable.

When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

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

Music creates order out of chaos.