A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINA great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
GERTRUDE STEINEvery day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
GERTRUDE STEINYou 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 STEINThe difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
GERTRUDE STEINThe reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
GERTRUDE STEINArgument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEINWhy should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
GERTRUDE STEINNobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.
GERTRUDE STEINGenerally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
GERTRUDE STEINYou attract what you need like a lover.
GERTRUDE STEINA very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
GERTRUDE STEINAn audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
GERTRUDE STEINThe creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINMoney is always there but the pockets change.
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