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.....

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

It's not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness.....

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

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

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....