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I can not draw sheep and cows if I do not understand their lives.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food ... — Irving Stone

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings. — Irving Stone

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink. — Irving Stone

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it. — Irving Stone

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life. — Irving Stone

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 — Irving Stone

Every man must settle down once in a lifetime. — Irving Stone

Art destroys the life. — Irving Stone

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist. — Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence. — Irving Stone

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti] — Irving Stone

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that. — Irving Stone

Wherever at least two art lovers meet, Vincent Van Gogh's name is holy. — Irving Stone

Artists thrive on suffering. — Irving Stone

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

To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer. — Irving Stone

After all, the world is still great. — Irving Stone

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 — Irving Stone

Vincent did not know how to express his feelings in words. He knew how to paint them.
However, one cannot paint the farewell. — Irving Stone

What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day. — Irving Stone

The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day. — Irving Stone

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning. — Irving Stone

It was a pastiche of public library porn from Irving Stone to Philip Roth. — Nell Zink

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. — Irving Stone

I was thinking that Rembrandt would have like to paint you. — Irving Stone

Have you ever been in love?"
"...in a way."
"It's always 'in a way. — Irving Stone

Many times in your life you may think you are failing, but ultimately you will express yourself and that expression will justify your life. — Irving Stone

Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes. — Irving Stone

Indignation. Best fuel I know. Never burns out. — Irving Stone

Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion. — Irving Stone

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature. — Irving Stone

I wanted the figures to be real and believable so that you would feel that with their very next breath would begin life itself. — Irving Stone

Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only. — Irving Stone

Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. — Irving Stone

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before. — Irving Stone

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry. — Irving Stone

An impressionist is the one who does not paint like everyone, does not obey the rules and attitude.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning. — Irving Stone

The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate. — Irving Stone

Watercolor is not my way of expression.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

An empty stomach is better than full and grief is better than happiness. — Irving Stone

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. — Irving Stone

There is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris. — Irving Stone

God did not create us to abandon us. — Irving Stone

A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time. — Irving Stone

An artist does not have to think about what he is doing. — Irving Stone

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors. — Irving Stone

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. — Irving Stone

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?"
"Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out. — Irving Stone

And rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known. — Irving Stone

Diligence does not work if there is a lack of innate talent. — Irving Stone

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action. — Irving Stone

Religion will never show the way. — Irving Stone

You cannot be the good all the time - sometimes it is necessary to get angry.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

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. — Irving Stone

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. — Irving Stone

Normal people do not create art. — Irving Stone

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones. — Irving Stone

The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is. — Irving Stone

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] — Irving Stone

The artist has the liberty to exaggerate, to create in his novel a world more beautiful, more simple, more consoling than ours. — Irving Stone

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns. — Irving Stone

The sculptor is master of time; he can change his subjects forward or back. — Irving Stone

Who loves - lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread. — Irving Stone

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind. — Irving Stone

Only suffering grows big artists. — Irving Stone

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it. — Irving Stone

God is imagined as a rich, old gentleman who is very happy that things are going so smooth here on Earth that he had created. — Irving Stone

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

That horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time. — Irving Stone

Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen. — Irving Stone

Perhaps you could not find such godless, such ruthless and such materialist people as clergy. — Irving Stone

You know, Nabby, there's mighty few pleasures in life to equal doing one's job. It is an act of love ... -p. 131 — Irving Stone

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives. — Irving Stone

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book. — Irving Stone

He ... breathed in
heavy gulps of air to prove to himself that he was three-dimensional. — Irving Stone

The artist has to take risks. — Irving Stone

From out of pain, beauty. — Irving Stone

Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge. — Irving Stone

What we know of others is our personal secret. — Irving Stone

'Tell me, please,' Van Gogh asked, 'is it justifiable that a person wastes his only life by selling worthless paintings for fools? — Irving Stone

Oh, my job ... I sacrificed my whole life ... and almost lost my mind.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

Actually, Paris wakes up when it comes time for aperitif. — Irving Stone

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself. — Irving Stone

He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.
— Irving Stone

Pain did curious things to him. It made him sensitive to the pain of others. — Irving Stone

Art is amoral; so is life. — Irving Stone

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. — Irving Stone

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him. — Irving Stone

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death. — Irving Stone

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us. — Irving Stone

It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone

Money makes the man a beast. — Irving Stone

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. — Irving Stone

They had painted in a grand rush to keep intact the purity of their first impression, the mood in which the motif had been conceived. — Irving Stone

We are all are cripples in some way.
[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec] — Irving Stone

Loneliness is a kind of prison.
[Vincent Van Gogh] — Irving Stone