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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
Biographer
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Opinion Journalist
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San Francisco County
California
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Life

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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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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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Normal people do not create art.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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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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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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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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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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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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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]
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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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Religion will never show the way.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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