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
art maximum values
The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.
artist finest features
All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
world misery worth-fighting-for
Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.
abandon
God did not create us to abandon us.
beauty pain
From out of pain, beauty.
heart joy brooding
The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.
knowing suffering complaining
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.]
artist normal happens
No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
way shows
Religion will never show the way.
cows beastly fortune
Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
men body faces
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?
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.