The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINI like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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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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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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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You have to know what you want to get it.
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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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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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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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