Frank X. Barron famous quotes

Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.
-- Frank X. Barron

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Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.
-- Frank X. Barron

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The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.
-- Frank X. Barron

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The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.
-- Frank X. Barron

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I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.

I love our fans. Our fans are so supportive. It's been incredible to end four playoff games with 'Go Pack Go.' It's great at home, they travel well, it's on a first-name basis. It's a special play to play and all of us are blessed to play in Green Bay, and hopefully we will be repaying those fans with the Lombardi trophy.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Superficially insignificant or accidental looking detail (in art) may well carry the most important unconscious symbolism.

I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

The average man. The emergence of the concept.

Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.