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
artist mediocrity rise-above
An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
artist ideas hours
An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
artist
Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.
artist firsts laborers
To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
artist finest features
All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
artist normal happens
No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.
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I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
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.
artist painful form
He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
artist would-be miserable
One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.
believe good romantic stay work
There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.
document novel sets truth
The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
deep father fear hated life painting seen spent strange women
Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.