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“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.”

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Author:Marilyn Manson

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

Art Order Born Art Is Chaos

Book:From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

“Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos. Art is free in the use of its means in any way it likes, but is bound to its laws and to its laws alone. The minute it becomes art, it becomes much more sublime than a class distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie.”

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Author:Kurt Schwitters

“The difference between writing a story and simply relating past events is that a story, in order to be acceptable, must have shape and meaning. It is the old idea that art is the bringing of order out of chaos.”

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Author:Katherine Paterson

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

Needs Art Art Is Chaos Messy

Author:Andrew Stanton

“Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates, sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.”

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Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.”

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Author:Jonathan Lethem

“Most conservatives know better than to promote the state funding of art. The result of such funding is the mess that modern art has become. Atonal music is to music what subsidized art is to art. ...The fact that cacophony has reigned almost supreme since 1900 is a testimony to Mises' original observation. Atonal music is to music what socialism is to economics: planned chaos.”

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Author:Gary North

“Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.”

Art Art Is Opposites Chaos Organized

Author:Igor Stravinsky

“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”

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Author:John Cheever

“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.”

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Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories