Chaos fosters creativity

• Chaos is favorable to creativity. Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
• Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Marianne Williamson
• Chaos is the first step in the creative process. Jill Bolte Taylor 
• No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime. Mason Cooley
• The creative process requires chaos before form emerges. Marilyn Ferguson
• Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. Eric Hoffer
• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. Tom Barrett
• Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow. Michele Cassou
• That is the creative artist – a penalty of the creative artist – wanting to make order out of chaos. Ursula Nordstrom
• The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple. Donald M. MacKinnon
• I don’t believe creativity needs to come from chaos, I find it’s easier to be creative when I’m really “ready”. Leanne Pooley
• Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion. Charles Handy
• So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. Rowan Williams
• Creativity allows for paradox, light, shadow, inconsistency, even chaos -and creative people experience both extremes with equal intensity. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy… Richard Holbrooke
• The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas. Terence McKenna
• The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight. Twyla Tharp
• The overman…Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life’s terrors, he affirms life without resentment. Friedrich Nietzsche
• The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we’re lucky. Ursula Nordstrom
• The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge. Philippa Perry
• There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos. Andy Hargreaves

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Art is order, born out of chaos

• Art can make chaos seductive. Mason Cooley
• Art is the triumph over chaos. John Cheever
• Art is order, made out of the chaos of life. Saul Bellow
• Art is messy, art is chaos – so you need a system. Andrew Stanton
• The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Theodor Adorno
• Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos. Igor Stravinsky
• For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life. May Sarton
• In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order. Novalis
• Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. Stephen Sondheim
• Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life’s chaos. Kurt Schwitters
• Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life. Robert Hayden
• The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos? Romare Bearden
• I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. Saul Bellow
• That is the creative artist – a penalty of the creative artist – wanting to make order out of chaos. Ursula Nordstrom
• You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. Ansel Adams
• Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. Somerset Maugham
• 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. Archibald MacLeish
• Chaos is everywhere – and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio. Eric Maisel
• 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. John Cheever
• Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing. Lewis Hyde
• All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. Otto Dix
• The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we’re lucky. Ursula Nordstrom
• An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos from an apparently indifferent chaos. Peter London
• Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there’s a tension between them. A sense of order comes from chaos and contains a bit of it, but it’s the sense of order that is important in a work of art. Alfred Brenda
• Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own. Elizabeth Grosz
• But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat. Molly Haskell
• If today’s arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation of chaos and a longing to find the form appropriate to our times. Oskar Schlemmer
• 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. Madeleine L’Engle
• I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. Saul Bellow