A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.
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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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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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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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If 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.
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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.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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A diary means yes indeed.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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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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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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Any time is the time to make a poem.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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