Quote #47
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
More from Gertrude Stein
- The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.
- Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.
- When you are writing before there is an audience anything written is as important as any other thing and you cherish anything and everythin…
- A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
- I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
- Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
- In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
- Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.