Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
GERTRUDE STEINAny time is the time to make a poem.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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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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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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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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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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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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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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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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