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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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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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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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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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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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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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