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From out of pain, beauty.

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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
Pain
Beauty

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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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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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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.
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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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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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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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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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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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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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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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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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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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