Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.

Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

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

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.