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 STEINIf you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Everybody 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.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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We are always the same age inside.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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