He was spilling out a year of his life blood with every convulsive painting that he tore from his vitals. It was not the length of his stay on earth that mattered to him ; it was what he did with the days of his life. For him time would have to be measured by the paintings he poured out, not by the fluttering leaves of a calendar.

— Irving Stone

Irving Stone Quotes

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.

— Irving Stone

There’s all the kids at home, and my mother and brother. And the men I pick up. But you live alone anyhow, don’t you? It ain’t people that count. It’s having someone you really like.

— Irving Stone

There is only a God-given number of years in which to work and fulfill yourself. Don’t squander them.

— Irving Stone

I wanted the figures to be real and believable so that you would feel that with their very next breath would begin life itself.

— Irving Stone

He had come into the autumn of his life: a man had his seasons, even as had the earth. Was the harvesting of autumn less important than the seeding of spring? Each without the other was meaningless.

— Irving Stone

He was spilling out a year of his life blood with every convulsive painting that he tore from his vitals. It was not the length of his stay on earth that mattered to him ; it was what he did with the days of his life. For him time would have to be measured by the paintings he poured out, not by the fluttering leaves of a calendar.

— Irving Stone

Because it will make a real artist of you. The more you suffer, the more grateful you ought to be. An empty stomach is better than a full one, Van Gogh, and a broken heart is better than happiness. Never forget that!

— Irving Stone

Time has a texture. Each period of waiting looms its own design. For Abigail, this one was shot through with golden threads. -Those Who Love, p. 130.

— Irving Stone

Inside yourself you’re strong. That’s the place where strength counts. Strength shows not only in how fast you can chop down trees.’ -p. 5.

— Irving Stone

I do like to teach. Sitting in my great chair at school, I used to consider myself as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth... To fire a newborn soul with ardor for learning! At that time I thought the world could afford no greater pleasure.’ – Those Who Love, p. 177.

— Irving Stone

Art is amoral; so is life.

— Irving Stone

I have to make my drawing right so that my drawing will be right.

— Irving Stone

It was only a remote portion of his mind that heard and answered the girl. The rest of him was soaking up her beauty with the passionate thirst of a man who has drunk too long at a celibate well.

— Irving Stone

Her gown was cut Sufficiently low to suggest how abundantly the coming generations might be nourished.

— Irving Stone

Immortality means being loved by many anonymous people.

— Irving Stone

Crime was not a cause, but a result; the prisons were the open sores of a diseased social body.

— Irving Stone

He felt extremely friendly to them all; they too knew what splendid thing it was to be in love.

— Irving Stone

Art has a magic quality: the more minds that digest it, the longer it lives.

— Irving Stone

Never let it happen to you as it did to me. That you wake in the morning, stare at the ceiling, ask yourself, ‘What have I got to get up for today?’ and answer... ‘Nothing.

— Irving Stone

A work of art meant growth from the particular to the universal. To a work of art, time brought timelessness.

— Irving Stone
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