A Quote by Theodor W. Adorno

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

Theodor W. Adorno

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Theodor W. Adorno
German - Philosopher
September 11, 1903 - August 6, 1969

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

Theodor Adorno

Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.

George Peabody

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

Stephen Sondheim

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

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 Brendel

A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order into everything. Order is disorder. Order creates disorder.

Frederick Lenz

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

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 moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you're seeing God clearly.

Caroline Myss

You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and order - order out of chaos. But we will.

George W. Bush

The human mind and the entire life process is chaotic. Chaos is not something that lacks order; chaos has varieties of order within it.

Frederick Lenz

I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance.

Richard Garriott

Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair.