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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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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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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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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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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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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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Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.
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Normal people do not create art.
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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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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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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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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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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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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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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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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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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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