Gertrude Stein Quotes: 12

• A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

• One must dare to be happy.

• We are always the same age inside.

• Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

• It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

• You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance.

  Three Lives

• Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

• You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

• it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

• In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

  Tender Buttons

• I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

  Three Lives & Tender Buttons

• A FEATHER.A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.

  Tender Buttons