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.
GERTRUDE STEINWriter or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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This joy you feel is life.
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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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Too few is as many as too many.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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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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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
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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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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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