"Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only."
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"All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature."
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"Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness."
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"Religion will never show the way."
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"Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen."
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"The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning."
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"Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?"
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"Nature always resists the artist at the beginning."
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"Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food."
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"Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]"
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"I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else."
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"Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile."
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"What we know of others is our personal secret."
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"Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that."
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"It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]"
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"I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about."
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"His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap"
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"Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes."
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