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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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Nature
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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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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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Religion will never show the way.
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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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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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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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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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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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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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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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