Old Paradoxes Quotes by Frank Barron

“The creative person is both more primitive & more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder & a lot saner, than the average person.”

— 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…

— 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

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;…

— Frank Barron

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

— Frank Barron

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

— Frank Barron

Never take a person's dignity: it is worth everything to them, and nothing to you.

— 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

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

— Frank Barron

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

— Frank Barron