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The US. . . cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth. . . it lives in a perpetual present. in the US everything human is artificial. The country is without hope. What is arresting here is. . . both the absence of architecture in the cities and the dizzying absence of emotion and character in the faces and bodies.

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Irving Stone

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

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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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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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Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

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It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

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From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.

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