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1. "No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist." ~ Irving Stone
2. "Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that." ~ Irving Stone
3. "No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him." ~ Irving Stone
4. "There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action." ~ Irving Stone
5. "Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days." ~ Irving Stone
6. "It's pleasant to get used to the expensive, the soft, the comfortable. Once you're addicted, it's so easy to become a sycophant, to trim the sails of your judgment in order to be kept on. The next step is to change your work to please those in power, and that is death to the sculptor." ~ Irving Stone
7. "[...] And suddenly Vincent clearly realised what his subconsciousness had known for a long time. All the talks about God are just childish elusion, just a lie that calms a scared and lonely ordinary mortal in a dark and neverending night. There is no God. Sure as fate - there is no God. There is only chaos - dismal, painful, cruel, agonizing, blind, endless chaos." ~ Irving Stone
8. "Religion will never show the way." ~ Irving Stone
9. "The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself." ~ Irving Stone
10. "Weeks passed, Vincent did nothing - just ate, slept or sat staring at one point. [...] He wandered around the neighborhood in order to stretch his legs or just for pleasure. He walked because he was annoyed to lie, to sit or to stand. When he got tired of walking, he was sitting, lying or standing." ~ Irving Stone
11. "Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?" ~ Irving Stone
12. "Actually, Paris wakes up when it comes time for aperitif." ~ Irving Stone
13. "Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives." ~ Irving Stone
14. "We are giving the world back to man, and man back to himself. Man shall no longer be vile, but noble. We shall not destroy his mind in return for an immortal soul. Without a free, vigorous and creative mind, man is but an animal, and he will die like an animal, without any shred of a soul. We return to man his arts, his literature, his sciences, his independence to think and feel as an individual, not to be bound to dogma like a slave, to rot in his chains." ~ Irving Stone
15. "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
16. "'I saw the light of your room through the bottom of the door,' said vice-admiral, 'the watchman told me he had seen you in the yard four o'clock in the morning. How many hours per day do you work?''It depends. Sometimes eighteen, sometimes twenty.''Twenty!' Uncle Jan shook his head, his face became even more concerned. Vice-admiral could not believe that there would be such a thickhead in Van Gogh family." ~ Irving Stone
17. "Cardinal Giovanni still did not like delicate matters; they were usually painful." ~ Irving Stone
18. "She must always remember that: love ebbed and flowed, now rich and shining, now shabby and disconsolate. One must survive the bad in order to realize the good. Therein lay the miracle of love, that it could eternally recreate itself. She must always be dedicated, no matter what the years held, what the hardships or disappointments, the sorrows or tragedies: she must come through them all, through the most violent and frightening storms; for at the other end, no matter how long it might take or how dark the passage, one could emerge into clear warm sunlight." ~ Irving Stone
19. "The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns." ~ Irving Stone
20. "There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books." ~ Irving Stone
21. "It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved.[Vincent Van Gogh]" ~ Irving Stone
22. "He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us." ~ Irving Stone
23. "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
24. "On croit que j'imagine — ce n'est pas vrai — je me souviens.[They say I imagine — it is not true — I remember.]" ~ Irving Stone
25. "Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing." ~ Irving Stone
26. "Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes." ~ Irving Stone
27. "Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind." ~ Irving Stone
28. "Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre.[Vincent Van Gogh]" ~ Irving Stone
29. "He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death." ~ Irving Stone
30. "The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is." ~ Irving Stone
31. "Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c‘est la seule chose pratique, c‘est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]" ~ Irving Stone
32. "I will be an artist. I am sure I will.[Vincent Van Gogh]" ~ Irving Stone
33. "What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day." ~ Irving Stone
34. "Money makes the man a beast." ~ Irving Stone
35. "I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book." ~ Irving Stone
36. "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 is completely inappropriate for it." ~ Irving Stone
37. "A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings." ~ Irving Stone
38. "Fortune is beastly — it is only suitable for cows and businessmen." ~ Irving Stone
39. "Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge." ~ Irving Stone
40. "An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it." ~ Irving Stone
41. "All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature." ~ Irving Stone
42. "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
43. "We are all are cripples in some way.[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]" ~ Irving Stone
44. "Art destroys the life." ~ Irving Stone
45. "It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?""Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out." ~ Irving Stone
46. "He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a deeper, more everlasting hell than man's unvarnished verdict of himself?" ~ Irving Stone
47. "Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life." ~ Irving Stone
48. "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
49. "He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic." ~ Irving Stone
50. "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." ~ Irving Stone
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