Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
GERTRUDE STEINA 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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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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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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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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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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