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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

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 always resists the artist at the beginning.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
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If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.
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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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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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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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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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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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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Art is amoral so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
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After all, the world is still great.
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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 maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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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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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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