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• Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
  -- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish novelist, short story write...
• The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
• 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....
• The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary
  men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -- Joseph Conrad...
• The ideal reasoner, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearing
  deduce from it not only the chain of events which led up to it but also the results which would follow from it....
• Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
  -- Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) -- The Art of Poetry, Canto iii, Line 374...
• All a man can betray is his conscience. -- Joseph Conrad
• Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality -- Joseph Conrad
• In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence .
  .. in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ....