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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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The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.
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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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All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
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Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
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Talent is cheap dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
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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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He had been standing still for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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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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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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From out of pain, beauty.
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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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It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm? Indignation, said Michelangelo. Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
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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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Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
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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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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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After all, the world is still great.
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