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

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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Opinion Journalist
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San Francisco County
California
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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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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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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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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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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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Normal people do not create art.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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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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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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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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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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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