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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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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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Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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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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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?
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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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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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Normal people do not create art.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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