Auguste Renoir Quotes

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.

Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

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

I've never followed a list in my life, and that's probably what has created so much nervous energy in my body.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

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 have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

There's no formula.

One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.

I love doing things that people don't expect.

Records don't have to be perfect. Everyone doesn't have to move left when everyone else moves left. I love hearing the mistakes.