There's no love without pain. Irving Stone More Quotes by Irving Stone More Quotes From Irving Stone There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before. Irving Stone thrill trying men The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning. Irving Stone four athlete morning Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. Irving Stone keenness sticks reading He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us. Irving Stone darkest-hour abandon hours From out of pain, beauty. Irving Stone pain beauty Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing. Irving Stone drawing lines stories ...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known. Irving Stone heat fierce light What we know of others is our personal secret. Irving Stone secret knows He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.' Irving Stone canvas design self Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind. Irving Stone forgiving sometimes men It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh] Irving Stone vans hard easy Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh] Irving Stone prison loneliness kind Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures. Irving Stone reading joy people I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh] Irving Stone vans artist Nature always resists the artist at the beginning. Irving Stone artist Normal people do not create art. Irving Stone normal people art Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh] Irving Stone louvre someday painting You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh] Irving Stone angry vans sometimes He who loves lives, he who lives works, and he who works has bread. Irving Stone love-life bread After all, the world is still great. Irving Stone stills world