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 STEINFor a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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One must dare to be happy.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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