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.
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.
GERTRUDE STEINI do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
GERTRUDE STEINSuppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
GERTRUDE STEINThe difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
GERTRUDE STEINOne must dare to be happy.
GERTRUDE STEINThere ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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.
GERTRUDE STEINThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEINWhoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
GERTRUDE STEINThe artist works by locating the world in himself.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINToo few is as many as too many.
GERTRUDE STEINIf the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
GERTRUDE STEINHow I wish I were able to say what I think.
GERTRUDE STEINIt 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.
GERTRUDE STEINForensics is eloquence and reduction.
GERTRUDE STEIN