Frank Barron Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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