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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

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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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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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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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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Religion will never show the way.
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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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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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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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