A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINA creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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