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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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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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Religion will never show the way.
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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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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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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God did not create us to abandon us.
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Normal people do not create art.
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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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Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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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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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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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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... 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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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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