Conrad believed that the style of the novel “must strenuously aspire to the plasticity of sculpture, to the colour of painting, and to the magic to the suggestiveness of music which is the art of arts.”(viii) Joseph Conrad was quite conscious of his manner; he has given a theory of it. This is the direct echo of his inevitable preference. Art is self sufficient; the art has no object but to fully transmit the impression of reality; and the senses are the best, or rather the way only open to this expression. Therefore the novelist must draw from all the resources of the arts, whether of colour and shape or of sound; his work should have the bright hues of painting, the solidarity of sculpture, the rhythum and harmony of music. He has fulfilled this programme to the letter; not with painstaking accuracy, but with the sovereign ease of a talent which when obeying rules is but following its own instinct.