Lukas Foss Quotes

The way creative people live is different from people who don't do anything creative.

don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.

I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.