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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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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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God did not create us to abandon us.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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