It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
GERTRUDE STEINEach generation has something different at which they are all looking.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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Money is always there but the pockets change.
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You attract what you need like a lover.
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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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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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How I wish I were able to say what I think.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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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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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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