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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.
Irving Stone
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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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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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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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From out of pain, beauty.
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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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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I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.
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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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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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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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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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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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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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Normal people do not create art.
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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