Lukas Foss
Lukas Foss
Lukas Fosswas a German-American composer, pianist, and conductor...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth15 August 1922
CountryGermany
unique artist missing
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.
mean feel-good doe
Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.
falling-in-love interesting identity
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.
past debt creation
Any creator owes a debt to past creation.
creative may way
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.
truth-is bigs concepts
Truth is a big concept.
ideas together dramatic
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.
interesting facts influence
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.
writing creative letters
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.
war shoes childhood
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.
artist thieves doe
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.
silly boys play
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.
creative age seven
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.
creativity creative kind
To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.