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“The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.”
-- Irving Stone

#Love #Romance #Stories
“A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.”
-- Irving Stone

#Men #Painting
“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
-- Irving Stone

#Inspirational #Friendship #Reading
“Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.”
-- Irving Stone

#Inspirational #Love Is #People
“He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.”
-- Irving Stone

#Artist #Painful #Form
“The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.”
-- Irving Stone

#Perfect #Failing #Guides
“To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.”
-- Irving Stone

#Trying #Depth #Endeavor
“I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.”
-- Irving Stone

#Book #Mental Illness #Illness
“Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.”
-- Irving Stone

#Life #Beautiful #Art
“The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.”
-- Irving Stone

#Heart #Joy #Brooding
“Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.”
-- Irving Stone

#Mad #Madmen #Pleasant
“Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, Ã§a c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leÃ§on Ã apprendre, la solution du problÃ¨me 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.]”
-- Irving Stone

#Knowing #Suffering #Complaining
“No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.”
-- Irving Stone

#Artist #Normal
“Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?”
-- Irving Stone

#Flames #Waiting #Soul
“Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.”
-- Irving Stone

#People #Drug #Morality
“There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.”
-- Irving Stone

#Evil #Action #Existence
“The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.”
-- Irving Stone

#Art #Maximum #Values
“All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.”
-- Irving Stone

#Artist #Finest
“Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.”
-- Irving Stone

#World #Misery #Ends
“Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.”
-- Irving Stone

#Cows #Beastly #Fortune
“Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.”
-- Irving Stone

#Men #People #Generosity
“Religion will never show the way.”
-- Irving Stone

#Way #Shows
“An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.”
-- Irving Stone

#Artist #Ideas #Hours
“Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.”
-- Irving Stone

#Men #Forgiving #Sometimes
“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.”
-- Irving Stone

#Religious #Art #Believe
“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.”
-- Irving Stone

#Reading #People #Joy
“Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.”
-- Irving Stone

#Fall #Character #Personality
“It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.”
-- Irving Stone

#Anger #Use #Fuel
“Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.”
-- Irving Stone

#Alphabet
“Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.”
-- Irving Stone

#Art #Book #Art Is

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