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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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Normal people do not create art.
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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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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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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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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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After all, the world is still great.
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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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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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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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