3 Joseph Conrad Quotes on Creativity

Joseph Conrad quotes on creativity

10. The more I write the less substance do I see in my work, ... It is tolerably awful. And I face it, I face it but the fright is growing on me. My fortitude is shaken by the view of the monster. It does not move; its eyes are baleful; it is as still as death itself - and it will devour me. Its stare has eaten into my soul already deep, deep.

21. It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.

44. An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.