Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
GERTRUDE STEINYou 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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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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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!
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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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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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How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
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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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This joy you feel is life.
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there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
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