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

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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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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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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He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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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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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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Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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Normal people do not create art.
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Religion will never show the way.
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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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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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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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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