Ordered Chaos Quotes

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

In the tumult and uproar, the battle seems chaotic, but there is no disorder, the troops appear to be milling about in circles but cannot be defeated.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.

Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or by numbers or by the language in which the text is written, every library translates the chaos of discovery and creation into a structured system of hierarchies or a rampage of free associations.

Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.