The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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One must dare to be happy.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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Too few is as many as too many.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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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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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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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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