Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
Gertrude Stein
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
Art Collector
Author
Autobiographer
Collector
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Salonnière
Writer
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
Gertrude Stein
Americans
Buyer
Lives
Buyers
Great
Sale
Successes
Failures
Mostly
Marketing
Spent
More quotes by Gertrude Stein
There is no there there.
Gertrude Stein
Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
Gertrude Stein
The artist works by locating the world in himself
Gertrude Stein
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
Gertrude Stein
I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
Gertrude Stein
Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.
Gertrude Stein
... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.
Gertrude Stein
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
Gertrude Stein
Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.
Gertrude Stein
A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.
Gertrude Stein
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
Gertrude Stein
There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
Gertrude Stein
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Gertrude Stein
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
Gertrude Stein
It is very easy to love alone.
Gertrude Stein
You cannot go into the womb to form the child it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.
Gertrude Stein
That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
Gertrude Stein
I have been the creative literary mind of the century.
Gertrude Stein
Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.
Gertrude Stein
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Gertrude Stein
