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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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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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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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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 brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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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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How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.
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Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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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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Religion will never show the way.
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Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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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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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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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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... 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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