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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

Irving Stone

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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Opinion Journalist
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San Francisco County
California
Madmen
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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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Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
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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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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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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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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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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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After all, the world is still great.
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It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm? Indignation, said Michelangelo. Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
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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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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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Normal people do not create art.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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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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