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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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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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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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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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Normal people do not create art.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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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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Art is amoral so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
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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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Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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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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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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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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Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?
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