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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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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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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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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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Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.
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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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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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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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From out of pain, beauty.
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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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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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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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... 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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After all, the world is still great.
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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Religion will never show the way.
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