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• The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin surfaces. Gone was the sentimental sobriety. Gone was the brown gravy in which Europe had been bathing its pictures for centuries. Here were pictures riotously mad with the sun. With light and air and throbbing vivacity. Paintings of ballet girls backstage, done in primitive reds, greens, and blues thrown next to each other irreverantly. He looked at the signature. Degas.

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  Girl, Wall, Light

  Irving Stone (1984). “Lust for Life”, Plume

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• I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.

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  Heart, Artist, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Religion will never show the way.

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  Way, Shows

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• Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

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  Cows, Beastly, Fortune

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

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  Painting, Someday, Louvre

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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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• 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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• 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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• Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

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  Artist

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• The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

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  Art, Maximum, Values

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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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