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Religion will never show the way.

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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One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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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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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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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.
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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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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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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [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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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [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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