Frank Barron quotes
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“The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.”
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“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.”
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“The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.”
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“The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.”
-- Frank BarronSource : Calvin Walker Taylor, Frank Barron (1963). “Research Conference on the Identification of Creative Scientific Talent”
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“A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).”
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“Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.”
-- Frank BarronSource : Frank Barron (1969). “Creative person and creative process”, Not Avail
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“The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act.”
-- Frank BarronSource : Frank Barron (1969). “Creative person and creative process”, Not Avail
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“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.”
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“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”
Source : Address at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1925.
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“Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.”
Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art")". Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA