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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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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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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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Religion will never show the way.
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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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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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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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God did not create us to abandon us.
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Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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After all, the world is still great.
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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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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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Normal people do not create art.
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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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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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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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Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
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