Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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I am I because my little dog knows me.
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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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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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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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The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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