Irving Stone Quotes

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

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

How difficult it is to be simple.

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

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.

Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.