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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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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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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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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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Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?
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From out of pain, beauty.
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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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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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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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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 try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
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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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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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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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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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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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