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It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm? Indignation, said Michelangelo. Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
Biographer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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San Francisco County
California
Warm
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Michelangelo
Keep
Freezing
Best
Indignation
Never
Burns
Fuel

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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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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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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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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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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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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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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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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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From out of pain, beauty.
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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Religion will never show the way.
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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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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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