"Nature always resists the artist at the beginning." — Irving Stone
"Nature always resists the artist at the beginning."
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- Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.
- After all, the world is still great.
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- Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]
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- How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and…
- 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…
- If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason…
- Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at…
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