Quote

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

Irving Stone

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
Biographer
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Values
Artist
Art
Maximum
Allows
Express
Value

More quotes by Irving Stone

Image
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.
Irving Stone
Image
A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
Irving Stone
Image
Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
Irving Stone
Image
Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
Irving Stone
Image
... 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.
Irving Stone
Image
I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
Irving Stone
Image
After all, the world is still great.
Irving Stone
Image
Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
Irving Stone
Image
Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
Irving Stone
Image
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
Irving Stone
Image
An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
Irving Stone
Image
Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
Irving Stone
Image
Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
Irving Stone
Image
All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
Irving Stone
Image
He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
Irving Stone
Image
Religion will never show the way.
Irving Stone
Image
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.
Irving Stone
Image
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.
Irving Stone
Image
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.
Irving Stone
Image
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.]
Irving Stone