Irving Stone Quotes

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

There is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris.

گوگن: آقای ون گوگ پاریس را چطور می بینید؟ون گوگ: خیلی دوست دارمگوگن: عجیبه! همه همین را میگن! من به سهم خودم پاریس را خاکروبه دونیِ بزرگی می دونم که تمدن هم خاکروبه اش استشور زندگی، ایروینگ ستون

Van Gogh asked,

And rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

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

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

Do you call yourself an artist? Yes. How absurd. You never sold a picture in your life. Is that what being an artist means—selling? I thought it meant one who was always seeking without absolutely fin...

Fortune is beastly — it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

Guilty, Your Honor, but only of minor transgressions. My motto is, 'Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness keep you from your books.

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, God did not create us to abandon us.

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.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

I have to make my drawing right so that my drawing will be right.

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...

You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, an...

Said vice-admiral, Uncle Jan shook his head, his face became even more concerned. Vice-admiral could not believe that there would be such a thickhead in Van Gogh family.