Quotes by : Irving Stone

You can only have the courage and strength to do what you think is right. It may turn out to be wrong,....

From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this....

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred....

He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within.....

A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture....

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?""Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I....

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

He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.

What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had topaint. Whether he painted well or badly....