Top 31 Quotes by Lukas Foss

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.

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.

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.

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.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.