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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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Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.
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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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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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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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After all, the world is still great.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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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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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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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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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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Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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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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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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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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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.
Irving Stone
Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
Irving Stone
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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