You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
GERTRUDE STEINThe artist works by locating the world in himself.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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