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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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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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After all, the world is still great.
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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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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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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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To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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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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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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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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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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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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