Irving Stone Quotes

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?""Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

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.

He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict greater retribution? Could Dante's Charon in his rowboat on the river Acheron whip the miscreants into a deeper, more everlasting hell than man's unvarnished verdict of himself?

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

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

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