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

—Gertrude Stein

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About Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted...

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Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

—Gertrude Stein

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

—Gertrude Stein

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The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.

—Gertrude Stein

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

—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.

—Gertrude Stein

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More quotations tagged with “painting”

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

—Hans Hofmann

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

—Jackson Pollock

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Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

—Walter Annenberg

Each painting has its own way of evolving… When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

—William Baziotes

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

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