The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.
GERTRUDE STEINAny time is the time to make a poem.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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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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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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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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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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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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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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