A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
GERTRUDE STEINthere are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
-
-
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Any time is the time to make a poem.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
The artist works by locating the world in himself.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
GERTRUDE STEIN