Irving Stone Quotes

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

I've always been really fascinated by Vincent van Gogh.

Van Gogh was impulsive.

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

I knew that I had to find out more about van Gogh. Even though I was far too young, and felt I did not have sufficient technique to write a book about Vincent van Gogh, I knew I had to try. If I didn't I would never write anything else.

Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains hard to find the time and inner rest to write.

Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.

My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.

How many artists subscribe to the notion that creative success depends on input from the fickle muse or her modern avatar, mental illness? Probably very few.

I am a big fan of the Impressionists, and in my school days, I was inspired by Caravaggio, Velazquez and Rembrandt.

Van Gogh cut off his ear for his art. I'm not tryin' to cut off my ear. I'm not humiliating myself.

I just wanna be an artist, like someone like Bjork and Kate Bush and Regina Spektor. These are people that have saved people, I think, by being what they are.

I always dreamed of working in Paris, of going to the Coupole and slapping Picasso or Giacometti on the shoulder.