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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.

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
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