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
thinking ideas special
How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.
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.
school thinking important
If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.
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 mediocrity rise-above
An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.
art men desire
Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food...
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]