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
light heat fierce
...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.
girl wall light
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin surfaces. Gone was the sentimental sobriety. Gone was the brown gravy in which Europe had been bathing its pictures for centuries. Here were pictures riotously mad with the sun. With light and air and throbbing vivacity. Paintings of ballet girls backstage, done in primitive reds, greens, and blues thrown next to each other irreverantly. He looked at the signature. Degas.
drawing lines stories
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.
fall character personality
Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
reading people joy
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.
artist vans
I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
sweet iron people
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.
religious art believe
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.
heart thinking artist
I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think about the world they live in. The painter who knows his own craft and nothing else will turn out to be a very superficial artist.
trying depth endeavor
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
perfect failing guides
The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.
artist painful form
He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
life beautiful art
Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
men painting
A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.