Lukas Foss Quotes
29 Lukas Foss quotes:
"Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original."
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"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."
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"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."
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"In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts."
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"As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?"
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"Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist."
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"To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together."
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"To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius."
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"Truth implies meaning."
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