Source: Lust for Life
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Famous Irving Stone Quotes
Source: the Agony and the Ecstasy
“Bleed me of art, and there won’t be enough liquid left in me to spit.” - Michelangelo”
Source: The Agony and the Ecstacy
Source: the Agony and the Ecstasy
“I was thinking that Rembrandt would have like to paint you.”
Source: Lust for Life
Source: Clarence Darrow for the defense
Source: Lust for Life
Source: Depths of Glory: A Biographical Novel of Camille Pissarro
Source: Clarence Darrow for the defense
“He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.”
Source: The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
Source: Lust for Life
Source: the Agony and the Ecstasy
Source: Lust for Life
Source: Clarence Darrow for the defense
“Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.”
“God did not create us to abandon us.”
Source: Irving Stone, three complete novels
“A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.”
“No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.”
“Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.”
“Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.”
“The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.”
“There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.”
“Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.”
“Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.”
Source: Irving Stone, three complete novels
“Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.”
“The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.”
Source: Irving Stone, three complete novels
“To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.”
Source: the Agony and the Ecstasy
“What we know of others is our personal secret.”
Source: Irving Stone, three complete novels
“Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.”
“He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.”
Source: the Agony and the Ecstasy
Source: Irving Stone, three complete novels
“The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.”
Source: The Great Adventure of Michelangelo: An Abridged Illustrated Edition of The Agony and the Ecstasy
Source: Irving Stone, three complete novels
Source: The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo