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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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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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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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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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... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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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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Normal people do not create art.
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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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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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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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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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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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