Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
GERTRUDE STEINArt isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
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You have to learn to do everything, even to die.
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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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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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One must dare to be happy.
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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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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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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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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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Romance is everything.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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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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