Andreas Gursky Quotes

I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.

I like it when things are where they're supposed to be.

Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.

I love people who try to keep the world in control - because the world is inherently not in control.

No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability?

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

I like having a routine, because everything else... is so unpredictable.

When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think.

We're all seeking order. We're all seeking control.

I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.

I can't stand things being out of place.

Clear rules provide huge amounts of freedom: freedom to be safe and freedom to work efficiently because things are in order.

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.

I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays, and holding a map makes me happy.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.