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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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He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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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's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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Normal people do not create art.
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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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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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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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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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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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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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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