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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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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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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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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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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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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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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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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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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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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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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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