Top 89 Quotes & Sayings by Irving Stone - Page 2

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?

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

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.'

... 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.

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

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

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

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

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.

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.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.

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

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.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Religion will never show the way.

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

Normal people do not create art.

The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.

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.

I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.

Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.