“Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.... it must fertilize the imagination.”
Joan Miró (1893–1983) Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist
from: Taillandier, 1959; as quoted in Calder Miró, ed. Elizabeth Hutton Turner / Oliver Wick; Philip Wilson Publishers, London 2004, p. 82, note 24
1940 - 1960
“Shit can be used as fertilizer.”
Jim Goad (1961) Author, publisher
Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt (Feral House, 2002)
“Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.”
Andrew S. Grove (1936–2016) Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author
High Output Management
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Other
“I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.”
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: Uncommon Criminals
“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
Source: A Short History of Decay (1949)
“The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow.”
Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer
Source: Sandman Slim
“The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.”
Germaine Greer (1939) Australian feminist author
Chapter 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=7MGFAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+management+of+fertility+is+one+of+the+most+important%22+%22of+adulthood%22&pg=PA40#v=onepage <br class="br">Sex and Destiny : The Politics of Human Fertility (1984)
“The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man”
José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
