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Order

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.
- Francis Bacon

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
- Henry B Adams

I believe in deeply ordered chaos.
- Francis Bacon

When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains
in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
- Pablo Picasso

My goal is to communicate the organization and beauty that exists
in our universe underneath the appearance of random chaos.
- Aleta Pippin

Good order is the foundation of all things.
- Edmund Burke

If you disturb the colors of the rainbow, the rainbow is no longer beautiful.
- Denis Diderot

Although order in a composition is important, order without variety
and personal expression can be boring.
- Britton Francis

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate.
It is for us to harmonize with this order.
- Henry Miller

Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness
from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system.
The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if
you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.
- Fairfield Porter

The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.
- Fairfield Porter

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