The artist works by locating the world in himself Gertrude Stein More Quotes by Gertrude Stein More Quotes From Gertrude Stein An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business. Gertrude Stein flatteringpleasantaudience Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting. Gertrude Stein boastlisteningattention Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much. Gertrude Stein threegirl The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living. Gertrude Stein compositioncomposing The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume. Gertrude Stein resumesway Near a war is always not very near. Gertrude Stein war Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does. Gertrude Stein doemeanbelieve You have to learn to do everything, even to die. Gertrude Stein death-and-dyingdiesdying I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking. Gertrude Stein undertakings One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand. Gertrude Stein womentalkingpeople It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away. Gertrude Stein fightingstrugglecharacter I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it. Gertrude Stein historicalambitionbaby It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money. Gertrude Stein moneyanimalmen It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny. Gertrude Stein difficulthumorideas A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint. Gertrude Stein saintthreetwo there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be. Gertrude Stein officialshas-beensart The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything. Gertrude Stein lines Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today. Gertrude Stein doglittlestoday Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear. Gertrude Stein explanationclear Two things are always the same the dance and war. Gertrude Stein two-thingswartwo
