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“I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.”

Source: Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.

“I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.”

Humans Light Form Imagine Color Expression Concern Structure Chaos Envy Painter Torment Restful

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude. Like the color white that includes all colors, they tend to bring together the entire range of human possibilities within themselves. Creativity allows for paradox, light, shadow, inconsistency, even chaos -and creative people experience both extremes with equal intensity.”

“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.”

Ifs Humans Art Chaos Make Sense Poetry Is Bad Things Human Experience

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a verse made or a picture seen. This suggests that God is no more idle now than He was at the beginning, but that He is still and forever shaping the human chaos into the instruments and means of beauty.”

Humans Mean Doe Made Stills Artist Forever Poet Spring Instruments Chaos Painter Artistic Atmosphere Verses Idle

Author:William Dean Howells

“Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.”

Humans Order Materials Products Activity Chaos Raw Materials Human Activity

Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune