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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
Irving Stone
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Irving Stone
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: July 14
Died: 1989
Died: August 26
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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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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
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What we know of others is our personal secret.
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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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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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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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... 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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From out of pain, beauty.
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Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
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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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The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
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God did not create us to abandon us.
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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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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Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.
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A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.
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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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