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We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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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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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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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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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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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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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm? Indignation, said Michelangelo. Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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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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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
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