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Normal people do not create art.

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Religion will never show the way.
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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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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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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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God did not create us to abandon us.
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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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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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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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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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