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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
Irving Stone
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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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Art is amoral so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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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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Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
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Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?
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Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.
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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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