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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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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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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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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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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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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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Normal people do not create art.
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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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From out of pain, beauty.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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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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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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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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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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