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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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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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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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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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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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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
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When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.
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Normal people do not create art.
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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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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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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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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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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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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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