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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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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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Normal people do not create art.
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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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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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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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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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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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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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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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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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