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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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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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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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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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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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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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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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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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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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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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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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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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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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Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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