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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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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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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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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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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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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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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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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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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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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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