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What does it mean?
His style is chaotic but illuminated by sudden insights.
In plain terms
His work is disorderly yet punctuated by brilliance.
What can you take from it?
Look for moments of clarity within apparent chaos.

Where it applies

  • creative critique
  • artistic analysis

Putting it to work

  • identify breakthrough ideas
  • embrace disorder as fertile ground

Questions to consider

  • What makes a chaotic style effective?
  • How do you find order in disorder?

Another view

Too much chaos can obscure insight.

More from Oscar Wilde

  1. It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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  2. No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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  3. Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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