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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
Irving Stone
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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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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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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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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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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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After all, the world is still great.
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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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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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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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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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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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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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One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.
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