Frank Barron famous quotes

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
-- Frank Barron

#Carpe Diem #Average #Creative

The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities.
-- Frank Barron

#Order #Imagination #Giving

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.
-- Frank Barron

#Choices #Belief #Refusal

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.
-- Frank Barron

#Creative #Novelty #Individual

A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).
-- Frank Barron

#Men #Creative #Sparks

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.
-- Frank Barron

#Fashion #Creativity #Energy

The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act.
-- Frank Barron

#Creative #Common #Participation

Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral absolutism and relativism... These are the basic problems of human existence, and as far as we possibly can we arrange things to forget them.
-- Frank Barron

#Art #Philosophy #Moral Absolutism

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.

Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...