A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
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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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