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Lust for Life QUOTES

Lust for Life QUOTES

1 " You can only have the courage and strength to do what you think is right. It may turn out to be wrong, but you will at least have done it, and that is the important thing. We must act according to the best dictates of our reason, and then leave God to judge its ultimate value. "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

2 " What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had to
paint. Whether he painted well or badly didn't matter; painting was the
stuff that held him together as a man. The chief value of art, Vincent, lies
in the expression it gives to the artist. Rembrandt fulfilled what he knew
to be his life purpose; that justified him. Even if his work had been
worthless, he would have been a thousand times more successful than if
he had put down his desire and become the richest merchant in
Amsterdam. (Mendes Da Costa "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

3 " How difficult it is to be simple. "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

4 " Normal people do not create art. "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

5 " First, we think all truth is beautiful, no matter how hideous its face may seem. We accept all of nature, without any repudiation. We believe there is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris. We think pain is good because it is the most profound of all human feelings. We think sex is beautiful even when portrayed by a harlot and a pimp. We put character above ugliness, pain above prettiness and hard, crude reality above all the wealth in France. We accept life in its entirety without making moral judgments. We think the prostitute is as good as the countess, the concierge as good as the general, the peasant as good as the cabinet minister, for they all fit into the pattern of nature and are woven into the design of life! "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

6 " There's no love without pain. "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

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

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

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

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

9 " I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint life one must understand not only anatomy, but what people feel and think 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. "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

10 " 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, and it is most important. "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

11 " Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures. "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

12 " Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes. "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

13 " The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin surfaces. Gone was the sentimental sobriety. Gone was the brown gravy in which Europe had been bathing its pictures for centuries. Here were pictures riotously mad with the sun. With light and air and throbbing vivacity. Paintings of ballet girls backstage, done in primitive reds, greens, and blues thrown next to each other irreverantly. He looked at the signature. Degas. "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

14 " After all, the world is still great. "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

15 " [...] And suddenly Vincent clearly realised what his subconsciousness had known for a long time. All the talks about God are just childish elusion, just a lie that calms a scared and lonely ordinary mortal in a dark and neverending night. There is no God. Sure as fate - there is no God. There is only chaos - dismal, painful, cruel, agonizing, blind, endless chaos. "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

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

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

17 " Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only. "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

18 " Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread. "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

19 " Artists thrive on suffering. "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life

20 " The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is. "

― Irving Stone , Lust for Life