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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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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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Religion will never show the way.
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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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He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.
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If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.
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Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
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After all, the world is still great.
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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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Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
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Normal people do not create art.
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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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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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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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No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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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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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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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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