Irving Stone
Irving Stone
Irving Stonewas an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians and intellectuals; among the best known are Lust for Life, about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy, about Michelangelo...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth14 July 1903
CountryUnited States of America
beautiful real thinking
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
painting canvas reason
... 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.
life patterns conclusion
Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
weed block writing
When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.
art eye suspense
...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.
love-life bread
Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.
world stills
After all, the world is still great.
strength men horny
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.
art liquid enough
Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]
art wine winter
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.
mind soup lap
His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap
hours darkest-hour abandon
He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.
self design canvas
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.'
simple difficult
How difficult it is to be simple.