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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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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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Normal people do not create art.
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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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... 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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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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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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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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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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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [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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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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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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God did not create us to abandon us.
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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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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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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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