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Religion will never show the way.

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?
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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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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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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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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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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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To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
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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.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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Art is amoral so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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