Irving Stone Quotes
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To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
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How difficult it is to be simple.
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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.
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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 own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'
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There's no love without pain.
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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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You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.
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... 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.
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The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
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I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.
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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 a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
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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 everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?
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Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
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There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.
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Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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Religion will never show the way.
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Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.
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It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
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An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
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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.]
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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?
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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
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The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
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From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.
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...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.
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He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
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