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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
Irving Stone
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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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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.
Irving Stone
Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
Irving Stone
Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
Irving Stone
Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
Irving Stone
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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
Irving Stone
Art is amoral so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
Irving Stone
Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
Irving Stone
All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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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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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
Irving Stone
Religion will never show the way.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
Irving Stone
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.
Irving Stone
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.
Irving Stone
The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
Irving Stone
The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
Irving Stone
The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
Irving Stone
