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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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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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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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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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... 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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Normal people do not create art.
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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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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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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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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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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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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From out of pain, beauty.
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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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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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After all, the world is still great.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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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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Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
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