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We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.
Zhou Yongkang
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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
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I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.
James Franco
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Art is the triumph over chaos.


John Cheever
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I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.


Henry Adams
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In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.


Carl Jung
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
Isabel Allende
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Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.


Ritchie Blackmore
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Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.
Roy Lichtenstein
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Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?
Marie Windsor
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You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.
Rick Riordan
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I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later.
Nicholas Haslam
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I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.
Val McDermid
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You really can't bring about anything new with art.


Martin Kippenberger
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Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.


Aneurin Bevan
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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.


Seamus Heaney
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.


Robert Mapplethorpe
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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.


Margaret Atwood
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