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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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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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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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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]
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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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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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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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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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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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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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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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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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