Master Time Quotes by Irving Stone

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

— Irving Stone

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

— Irving Stone

“Diligence does not work if there is a lack of innate talent.”

— Irving Stone

“From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey upward through…

— Irving Stone

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…

— Irving Stone

You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe…

— Irving Stone

“Only suffering grows big artists.”

— Irving Stone

“The fields that push up the corn, and the water that rushes down the ravine, the juice of the grape, and the life of…

— Irving Stone

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

— Irving Stone

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

— Irving Stone

Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of…

— Irving Stone

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

— Irving Stone

“Art should be linked to abstract things - color, line, tone. It is not an instrument to improve social conditions and chase ugliness. Painting…

— Irving Stone

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

— Irving Stone

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled…

— Irving Stone