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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
Irving Stone
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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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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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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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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.
Irving Stone
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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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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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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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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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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God did not create us to abandon us.
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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
Irving Stone
Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
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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.
Irving Stone
Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
Irving Stone
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.
Irving Stone
