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 STEINYou are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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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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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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