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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your 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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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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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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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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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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Religion will never show the way.
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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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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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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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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