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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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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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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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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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After all, the world is still great.
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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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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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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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... 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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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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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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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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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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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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Religion will never show the way.
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