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• 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....
• 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...
• You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
  -- John Updike, Rabbit Redux...
• When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art.
  -- John Trudell...
• 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...
• 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....
• When you transcend the medium, you have achieved art. -- Solomon Sho
• I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years. -- Samuel Goldwy