Author of quotes: Irving Stone. Page 6

The person must be an artist not because he can be, but only because he can't not to be.

Normal You never were... And you know, there is no artist that would be normal: one who is not normal can be an artist. Normal people are works of art do not create. They eat, sleep, perform normal, everyday functioning and die. You have an exaggerated sensitivity to life and nature; that's why You are able to be their interpreters to other people. But if you don't take care of yourself, this hypertrophy of sensitivity will be your downfall. Eventually it reaches such a voltage that causes death.

Anyone who wants to act, there is nothing to be afraid of failure.

Not too bad to live, when to work, when there is money on the food and the model. But where your friends are, where the closest person, which could be easily prevratitsa a word at least about the weather?

If you wish to work, you come to life. Don't waste time on imitation.

And you have not heard the anecdote about Rubens? He was Dutch Ambassador to Spain and used to spend the afternoon in the Royal garden at his easel. Is one day in the garden dressed up to the nines court and says, "I see that our diplomat sometimes dabbles in painting." Rubens and he answered: "No, it's the artist sometimes indulges in diplomacy!"

Do not write Rembrandt could not. He wrote good or bad - not important, but only Painting made him a man. The arts and expensive, Vincent, is that it gives the artist the opportunity to Express themselves. Rembrandt did what he thought was his life's purpose, and this is its justification. Even if his art wasn't worth anything, and even then he would have lived his life a thousand times more fruitful than if I suppressed my excitement and became the richest merchant of Amsterdam.

Happiness is the lot of cows, and merchants. The artist is born in pain: if you're hungry, humiliated, miserable - thank God! So he's never left you!