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Top 30 Lukas Foss Quotes (2025 Update)

Lukas Foss Quote: “Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.”

1. “Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.”

Lukas Foss Quote: “In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.”

2. “In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.”

Lukas Foss Quote: “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.”

3. “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 Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

Lukas Foss 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.”

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

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

Lukas Foss Quote: “Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.”

7. “Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.”

Lukas Foss 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.”

8. “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 Quote: “Truth implies meaning.”

9. “Truth implies meaning.”

Lukas Foss Quote: “I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.”

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

Lukas Foss Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

Lukas Foss 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.”

12. “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 Quote: “If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one’s own.”

13. “If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one’s own.”

Lukas Foss Quote: “Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don’t go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart’s. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.”

14. “Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don’t go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart’s. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.”

Lukas Foss Quote: “Composing is like making love to the future.”

15. “Composing is like making love to the future.”

Lukas Foss Quote: “The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don’t sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.”

16. “The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don’t sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.”

Lukas Foss 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.”

17. “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 Quote: “To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions – the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.”

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

Lukas Foss Quote: “When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.”

19. “When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.”

Lukas Foss Quote: “I don’t dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.”

20. “I don’t dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.”

Lukas Foss Quote: “Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.”

21. “Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.”

Lukas Foss Quote: “Truth is a big concept.”

22. “Truth is a big concept.”

Lukas Foss 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.”

23. “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 Quote: “Any creator owes a debt to past creation.”

24. “Any creator owes a debt to past creation.”

Lukas Foss Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

Lukas Foss Quote: “Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.”

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

Lukas Foss 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.”

27. “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 Quote: “My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.”

28. “My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.”

Lukas Foss Quote: “To understand Mozart’s contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.”

29. “To understand Mozart’s contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.”

Lukas Foss Quote: “I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.”

30. “I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.”

Lukas Foss Quote: “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?”

31. “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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