Gertrude Stein quotes - page 2

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. (Gertrude Stein)
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. View quote
Gertrude Stein
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. View quote
Gertrude Stein
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are. View quote
Gertrude Stein
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it. View quote
Gertrude Stein
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Romance is everything. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. View quote
Gertrude Stein
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. (Gertrude Stein)
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. View quote
Gertrude Stein
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war. View quote
Gertrude Stein
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. View quote
Gertrude Stein
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it. (Gertrude Stein)
A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. View quote
Gertrude Stein
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic. View quote
Gertrude Stein
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer. View quote
Gertrude Stein