The artist works by locating the world in himself.
GERTRUDE STEINThe artist works by locating the world in himself.
GERTRUDE STEINLadies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
GERTRUDE STEINI wish that I was where I am.
GERTRUDE STEINIt takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEINHow I wish I were able to say what I think.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
GERTRUDE STEINHonesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
GERTRUDE STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
GERTRUDE STEINAs there was never any question there was never any answer.
GERTRUDE STEINI like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
GERTRUDE STEINA little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to learn to do everything, even to die.
GERTRUDE STEINI have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEINWar is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
GERTRUDE STEIN