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Famous Irving Stone Quotes
“No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.”
“The maximum value of art is that it allows the artist to express himself.”
“To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.”
Source: the Agony and the Ecstasy
“He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.”
Source: the Agony and the Ecstasy
Source: the Agony and the Ecstasy
“An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.”
Source: Irving Stone, three complete novels
“An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.”
Source: Irving Stone, three complete novels