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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 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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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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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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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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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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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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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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Religion will never show the way.
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After all, the world is still great.
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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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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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 will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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Normal people do not create art.
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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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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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