Irving Stone Trying Quotations

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.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.