Irving Stone
Writer
1903-07-14
Books by Irving Stone
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
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Sailor on Horseback
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Quotes by Irving Stone
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A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.
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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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He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.
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There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
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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.
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An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
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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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There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
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He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.
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He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
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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.
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A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.
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An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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...blinded by the creative pride of the parent.
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...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
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From out of pain, beauty.
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Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
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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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