The World Motivation
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
“Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.”
— Lukas Foss · Artist
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
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.
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.
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.
One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of the biographical existence is paper; if you're 'an artist under oath' you're writing from a mountain of documentation.
As an artist, I want a reaction.
Everything I do, whether it's producing or signing an artist, always starts with the songs. When I'm listening, I'm looking for a balance that you could see in anything. Whether it's a great painting or a building or a sunset.
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
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.