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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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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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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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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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... 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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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
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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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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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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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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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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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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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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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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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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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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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