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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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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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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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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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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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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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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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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
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Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?
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After all, the world is still great.
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Art is amoral so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
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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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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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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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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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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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Religion will never show the way.
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