Irving Stone - Artist Quotes

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In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and thing 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.

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The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

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One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

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

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He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

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That horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

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