Personality is essential. It is in every work of art. When someone walks on stage for a performance and has charisma, everyone is convinced that he has personality. I find that charisma is merely a form of showmanship. Movie stars usually have it. A politician has to have it. Lukas Foss Read Quote
Since age seven, I’ve been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been. Lukas Foss Read Quote
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it. Lukas Foss Read Quote
The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not. Lukas Foss Read Quote
The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky. Lukas Foss Read Quote
There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one’s identity by falling in love. Lukas Foss Read Quote
To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions – the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered. Lukas Foss Read Quote
Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy. Lukas Foss Read Quote
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique. Lukas Foss Read Quote