Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Art itself my be defined as a single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“To be hopeful in an artistic sense it is not necessary to think that the world is good. It is enough to… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“From a letter to Barrett H.Clark, 4 May 1918(LL,II,pp.204-5): "my attitude to subjects and expressions, the angles of vision, my methods of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line...To snatch in a moment… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
![“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in…” quote by Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b2a/joseph-conrad-336_art_the-artist-speaks-to-our-capacity-for-de_518811.jpg)
