Chaos Quotes

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

~ Yehudi Menuhin

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

~ Frank Stella

Religion is a way to make order from chaos, and I think economics is not dissimilar. In religion and in economics, you're trying to figure out the way we perceive the world and move through it, and that's what I like to learn.

~ Stephen J. Dubner

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

~ Hermann Hesse

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

~ Henry Adams

You get to a point where the kind of beautiful chaos can't really fuel your creative existence any longer because it's not stable, however amazing and exciting it may be.

~ Kaki King

It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.

~ Meryl Streep

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

~ Clive Barker

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

~ Marilyn Manson

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

~ Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos.

~ Michael Cimino

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

~ Anthony Kiedis

We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

~ Ishmael Beah

We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos - these are the promises art makes.

~ Kathryn Harrison

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

~ Steve Martin

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

~ Theodor Adorno

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

~ Stephen Sondheim

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.

~ Marilyn Manson

Art is the triumph over chaos.

~ John Cheever

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

~ Balthus

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

~ John Lydon

My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

~ Paul Cézanne

With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

~ John Robinson

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

~ Robert Bork

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

~ George W. Bush

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

~ Jim Morrison

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

~ Alan Dean Foster

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb