You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
GERTRUDE STEINThe creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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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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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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