Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
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Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
GERTRUDE STEINNothing has happened today except kindness.
GERTRUDE STEINThere is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
GERTRUDE STEINThe creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
GERTRUDE STEINArgument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
GERTRUDE STEINI have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
GERTRUDE STEINI 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 STEINThe nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
GERTRUDE STEINIt is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
GERTRUDE STEINThere ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
GERTRUDE STEINThe 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.
GERTRUDE STEINIn the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
GERTRUDE STEINWar is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
GERTRUDE STEINYou have to know what you want to get it.
GERTRUDE STEINI understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
GERTRUDE STEINMostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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