“Where Breuil has seen chaos—or at least, randomness—in wall art, Leroi-Gourhan sought and found order.”

“Leroi-Gourhan surveyed more than sixty caves and saw order in the distribution of their images. Deer… often appeared in entranceways but were uncommon in main chambers. Horse, bison, and ox were the predominant creatures of the main chambers. Carnivores mostly occurred deep in the cave system.”

“We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness.”

“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”

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

“We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.”

“If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.”

“The idea that paradise, the proper habitat of a human being, is a walled garden – is a good one. It's an echo back to the chaos/order idea. Walls: culture. Garden: nature. The proper human habitat is a properly tended garden.”

“Descend from the infinite to the infinitesimal. Long before... observation had begun to penetrate the veil under which Nature has hidden her mysteries, the restless mind sought some principle of power strong enough and of sufficient variety to collect and bind together all parts of a world. This seemed to be found, where one might least expect it, in abstract numbers. Everywhere the exactest numerical proportion was seen to constitute the spiritual element of the highest beauty.”

“In a dream I cannot see
tangled abstract phallacy
random turmoil builds in me
i'm a addicted to chaos
-Megadeth, Addicted to Chaos”