Irving Stone Quotes

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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…
• Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.
• After all, the world is still great.
• No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.
• Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]
• 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…
• His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the…
• 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…
• An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
• 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…
• If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that…
• Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they…
• I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
• ...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
• From out of pain, beauty.
• Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
• ... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint,…
• The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
• Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food...
• He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

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