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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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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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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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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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When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.
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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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It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm? Indignation, said Michelangelo. Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
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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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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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After all, the world is still great.
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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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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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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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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.
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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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Normal people do not create art.
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