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Irving Stone Inspirational Quotes (57)

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Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.
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I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.
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The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
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Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.
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Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]
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Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
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Normal people do not create art.
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Religion will never show the way.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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