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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?
Irving Stone
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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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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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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
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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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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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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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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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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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Religion will never show the way.
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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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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... 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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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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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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