A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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This joy you feel is life.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Romance is everything.
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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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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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