Irving Stone Quotes

What we know of others is our personal secret.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.

After all, the world is still great.

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

There's no love without pain.

He who loves lives, he who lives works, and he who works has bread.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]

He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.

Art is a staple like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.

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.

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?""Indignation, " said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.