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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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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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Religion will never show the way.
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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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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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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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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 be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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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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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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Normal people do not create art.
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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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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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After all, the world is still great.
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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
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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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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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