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After all, the world is still great.

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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 most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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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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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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Religion will never show the way.
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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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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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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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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.
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If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.
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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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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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