When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
GERTRUDE STEINThe 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Too few is as many as too many.
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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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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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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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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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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