Irving Stone Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Irving Stone
Irving Stone Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Irving Stone on Wise Famous Quotes.
Time has a texture. Each period of waiting looms its own design. For Abigail, this one was shot through with golden threads. -Those Who Love, p. 130
And rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.
It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?"
"Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
"Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
Vincent did not know how to express his feelings in words. He knew how to paint them.
However, one cannot paint the farewell.
However, one cannot paint the farewell.
He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.
Inside yourself you're strong. That's the place where strength counts. Strength shows not only in how fast you can chop down trees.' -p. 5
Many times in your life you may think you are failing, but ultimately you will express yourself and that expression will justify your life.
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.
An impressionist is the one who does not paint like everyone, does not obey the rules and attitude.
[Vincent Van Gogh]
[Vincent Van Gogh]
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.
No one has called any of my pictures obscene ever but I have been constantly blamed for an even greater sin - the ugliness.
[Vincent Van Gogh]
[Vincent Van Gogh]
[Vincent Van Gogh] 'Oh Theo, don't you think I'm the black sheep, do you?'
[Theo Van Gogh] 'I'm more inclined to consider you as an ass.'
[Theo Van Gogh] 'I'm more inclined to consider you as an ass.'
I wanted the figures to be real and believable so that you would feel that with their very next breath would begin life itself.
Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.
There is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris.
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
When I compare myself to the other fellows there is something stiff and awkward about me; I look as if I had been in prison for ten years.
Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
If Delacroix discovered painting when he had neither teeth nor health, I can discover it when I have neither teeth nor the mind.
[Vincent Van Gogh]
[Vincent Van Gogh]
The artist has the liberty to exaggerate, to create in his novel a world more beautiful, more simple, more consoling than ours.
The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
That horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
You know, Nabby, there's mighty few pleasures in life to equal doing one's job. It is an act of love ... -p. 131
Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.
'Tell me, please,' Van Gogh asked, 'is it justifiable that a person wastes his only life by selling worthless paintings for fools?
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.