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• A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
  -- Joseph Conrad...
• Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence.
  Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life....
• He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word.
  The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense....
• A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
  -- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish novelist, short story write...
• An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
  -- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish novelist, short story write...
• Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
  -- John Updike (1932-__), U.S. novelist, short-story writer, poe...
• The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
• Sam's Axiom 1) Any line, however short, is still too long.
  2) Work is the crabgrass of life, but money is the water that keeps it green....
• Any line, however short, is still too long. -- Sam's Axiom (1)