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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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... 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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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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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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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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