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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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 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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After all, the world is still great.
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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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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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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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To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
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Normal people do not create art.
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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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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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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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