Creative Disorder Quotes

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.

Chaos can be incredibly creative.

My two souls, the socially conscious one and the lighthearted one, are always in my movies because they find a perfect habitat in my grotesque style, which combines tragedy and humor, irony and sarcasm, comedy and drama. I also feel that rules are made to be broken, especially in art! I prefer creative disorder to strict rules.

Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess!

People think that it is negative, but in fact, chaos can be very fertile.

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Chaos is a good thing.

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.