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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [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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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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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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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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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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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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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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How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.
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Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.
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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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God did not create us to abandon us.
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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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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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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From out of pain, beauty.
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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