Irving Stone Quotes
Irving Stone Quotes
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.
4180 An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
3227 There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
2637 It's not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slamdunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.
2412 He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.
4394 Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
1273 He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
3678 It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?"
"Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
4628 A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.
2346 From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey upward through time, everything that occurred after it a descent. If he could not control his fate, why be born?
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