For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
GERTRUDE STEINThe artist works by locating the world in himself.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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One must dare to be happy.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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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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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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