Gertrude Stein Quotes - Page 6

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

You have to know what you want to get it.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

As there was never any question there was never any answer.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

This is the place of places and and it is here.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.