Joseph Conrad Quotes

It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from one’s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.

perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.

Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic is the elemental stuff of art. In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do-spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.