Quotes About Chaos

These are three very practical ways to work with chaos: no struggle, poison as medicine, and regarding everything that arises as the manifestation of wisdom.

Chaos is part of our home ground. Instead of looking for something higher or purer, work with it just as it is.

To stay with that shakiness—to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge—that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic—this is the spiritual path.

The state of nowness is available in that moment of squeeze. In that awkward, ambiguous moment is our own wisdom mind. Right there in the uncertainty of everyday chaos is our own wisdom mind.

I grew up in a family full of yellers. People screaming and chaos goin' on, I feel right at home in it. I've really worked on myself with anger management. I try to save that for the stage.

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

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

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

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

Art can make chaos seductive.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.

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

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.

Art is the only answer to chaos and the void.