Peter O'Toole Quotes

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

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it's the sense of order that is important in a work of art.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

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.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

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 glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos.

I am very much an artist. I like painting and collaging.

With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

Marvin Gaye said there's a song inside of me and I can't get it out. And I know it's in there, and I can feel that it's in there, and I can't get it out. There's so much that I want to say, and I haven't been able to figure out how to say it in my art. I can only say it in ham-fisted, clumsy, nonpoetic ways, and I'm trying to figure out how to talk about life and talk about love and talk about pain and trials and tribulation in an artistic form.

The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.

Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.