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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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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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Religion will never show the way.
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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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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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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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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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After all, the world is still great.
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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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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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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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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