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• An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

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  Artist, Mediocrity, Rise Above

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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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  Weed, Block, Writing

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• We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

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  Religious, Art, Believe

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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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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  Sweet, Iron, People

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• All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

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  Artist, Finest, Crackpots

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• ...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

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  Light, Heat, Fierce

  Irving Stone (1987). “The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo”, Signet

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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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  Reading, People, Joy

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• Religion will never show the way.

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  Way, Shows

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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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  Fall, Character, Personality

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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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  Men, Body, Faces

  Irving Stone (1987). “The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo”, Signet

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• Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.

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  Men, Forgiving, Sometimes

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• Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

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  Painting, Someday, Louvre

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• The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

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  Beautiful, Real, Artist

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• He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'

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  Self, Design, Canvas

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.

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  Strength, Men, Horny

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

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  Artist

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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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  Heart, Joy, Brooding

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• I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]

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  Artist, Vans

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• The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

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  Morning, Athlete, Four

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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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  Thinking, Ideas, Special

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• Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

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  Loneliness, Kind, Prison

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• Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

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  Drawing, Stories, Lines

  Irving Stone (1987). “The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo”, Signet

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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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  Book, Writing, Trying

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• Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

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  Art, Wine, Winter

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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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  Painting, Canvas, Reason

  Irving Stone (1937). “Lust for Life: The Novel of Vincent Van Gogh”

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