Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
GERTRUDE STEIN
GERTRUDE STEIN
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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.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein 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.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein 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.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein You have to know what you want to get it.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein 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.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
Gertrude SteinGertrude Stein Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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