Jessica Stockholder Quotes

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

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

I've created a chaotic life, and then I get on edge because of it.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

Disorder brings about order.

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

My life is organized chaos.

Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.

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.

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

In chaos, there is fertility.

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.

Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.

Madness, and then illumination.

Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.

Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and... fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.

If it is not a mess, it is not progress.

I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent.