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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.
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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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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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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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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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I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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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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Normal people do not create art.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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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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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [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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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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