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 STEINThis is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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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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Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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