Lukas Foss Quotes

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Art is science made clear.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.

What we showed you was you can have analytic reasoning that can be passionate.

My job is about emotion. My job is about feeling. This might be controversial to say, but I feel like sometimes data gets in the way of that.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.

The making of art is no different than prayer.

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.

I personally just love movies about the creative process.

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.