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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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After all, the world is still great.
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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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... 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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God did not create us to abandon us.
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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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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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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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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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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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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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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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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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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Religion will never show the way.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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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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To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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