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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
Irving Stone
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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?
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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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Religion will never show the way.
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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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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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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
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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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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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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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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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Normal people do not create art.
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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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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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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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