"Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]"
"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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Source: Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing
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