organized clutter

Art needs a dash of anarchy. One possible escape from that hell is being into art.

JMW Turner, Turning drawing into Art

Science and innovation are chaotic, stochastic processes that cannot be governed and controlled by desk-bound planners and politicians, whatever their intentions.

Ernst Gombrich, Organized aesthetics and abstract clutters

small perturbations can lead to wild effects

The desire to combat uncertainty and maintain control has long been considered a primary and fundamental motivating force in human life. Any element of a picture requires the image to decide on its meaning.

Science, 3 October 2008: Vol. 322. no. 5898, pp. 115 - 117

Our risk aversion may prove the greatest block to our becoming an innovative art maker.

We need models that explain how small perturbations can lead to wild effects.

Chaos
Carpe diem
Zeuxis
Found