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From out of pain, beauty.

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
Biographer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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San Francisco County
California
Beauty
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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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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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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After all, the world is still great.
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