Joseph Conrad Quotes

In love as in art, good technique helps.

Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no 'me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

I have so much love for art.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

Great art can only be created out of love.

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.

The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.

I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.

I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.