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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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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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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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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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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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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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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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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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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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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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Religion will never show the way.
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Normal people do not create art.
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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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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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After all, the world is still great.
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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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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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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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