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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
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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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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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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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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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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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Normal people do not create art.
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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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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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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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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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Religion will never show the way.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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