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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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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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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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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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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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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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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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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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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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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I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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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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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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From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.
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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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After all, the world is still great.
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