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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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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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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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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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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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After all, the world is still great.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.
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