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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
Biographer
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Opinion Journalist
Playwright
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San Francisco County
California
Talent
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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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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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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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 writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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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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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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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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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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Religion will never show the way.
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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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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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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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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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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