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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the fa...
IRVING STONE
I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to s...
IRVING STONE
In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five ye...
IRVING STONE
My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a visi...
IRVING STONE
My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
IRVING STONE
I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the inte...
IRVING STONE
I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the reli...
IRVING STONE
I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was c...
IRVING STONE
There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you...
IRVING STONE
Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his...
IRVING STONE
I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried ...
IRVING PENN
Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, prepar...
IRVING PENN
A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
IRVING PENN
I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to ta...
IRVING PENN
Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like i...
IRVING PENN
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to...
IRVING PENN
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius...
IRVING PENN
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
IRVING PENN
Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue....
IRVING PENN
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously inter...
IRVING PENN
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photogra...
IRVING PENN
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
IRVING LAYTON
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and K...
IRVING LAYTON
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, t...
IRVING LAYTON
People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its...
IRVING KRISTOL
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL
Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, f...
IRVING KIRSCH
If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
IRVING KIRSCH
There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depre...
IRVING KIRSCH
If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effec...
IRVING KIRSCH
Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigge...
IRVING KIRSCH
Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that ...
IRVING KIRSCH
Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the...
IRVING KIRSCH
Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
IRVING KIRSCH
There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we ...
IRVING KIRSCH
Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antide...
IRVING KIRSCH