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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
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Novelist
Opinion Journalist
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Screenwriter
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San Francisco County
California
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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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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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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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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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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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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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How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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Normal people do not create art.
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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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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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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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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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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