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Gertrude Stein Quotes

Total quotes: 23
“...in the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”
— Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
Tagged: Day and Night, Morning, Evening, Life, meaning in life, Productivity, Resting
“Dear you, f*ck
you.”
— Gertrude Stein, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922(The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway)
Tagged: Funny, humor, Curse
“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”
— Gertrude Stein, What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them
Tagged: writer, Eyes, paint, Ears
“Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.”
— Gertrude Stein, What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them
Tagged: human beings, Interest, Reality, Story
“One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.”
— Gertrude Stein, Paris France
Tagged: Writing, Painting, Daily Miracle, Miracle
“I certainly do care for you...less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing.”
— Gertrude Stein, Three Lives
Tagged: Caring about someone, caring, Feelings, Concerned, feelings towards someone, Love, human affairs, Relationships
“I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.”
— Gertrude Stein, What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them
Tagged: Simplicity, Complication, Achieving Simplicity
“A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.”
— Gertrude Stein, Last Operas and Plays
Tagged: beauty, Rapture
“One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.”
— Gertrude Stein, Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tagged: difference, Change, Pleasure
“Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.”
— Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Autobiography
Tagged: Everybody, Careful, Occupied, Fail
“Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.”
— Gertrude Stein, Form and Intelligibility
Tagged: argument, Proposition, defense, Debate
“Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said”
— Gertrude Stein, What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them
Tagged: Words, Thing, dead
“When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.”
— Gertrude Stein, Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded
Tagged: Sleep, Dream, Dreaming
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
— Gertrude Stein, Reflections on the Atom Bomb
Tagged: information, Common Sense
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
— Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Autobiography
Tagged: Time, Genius, Knowledge, Doing Nothing
“Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.”
— Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans
Tagged: Disillusionment, Living, Understanding, agreement
“Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.”
— Gertrude Stein, An American and France
Tagged: Adventure, romance
“From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.”
— Gertrude Stein, Form and Intelligibility
Tagged: Progress, Age, World, Death, Age Gap
“Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.”
— Gertrude Stein, If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso
Tagged: History, Past, Teach, Lessons, History Teaches
“I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.”
— Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans
Tagged: Writing, Strangers
“A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.”
— Gertrude Stein, Four in America
Tagged: Failure, excuse, End
“A master-piece … may be unwelcome but it is never dull.”
— Gertrude Stein, What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them
Tagged: Masterpiece, Judgement, Art
“No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept... For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.”
— Gertrude Stein, Composition as Explanation
Tagged: Time, Creativity, Refusal, Acceptance, History, Change
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