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

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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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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...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 real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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Religion will never show the way.
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Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
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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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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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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 brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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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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After all, the world is still great.
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