Kasebier Gertrude Quotes

The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are always antagonized. Do not mind that. If a thing is good it will survive. ~ Gertrude Kasebier

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions. ~ Gertrude Kasebier

There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on mounts and signs announcing artist Photographer, Artistic Photography Studio, etc., and the lower the standard the more frantic the claim ... ~ Gertrude Kasebier

I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the nomadic button and the ceaseless call for sympathy, and the greatest demand on time and patience. My children and their children have been my closest thought, but from the first days of dawning individuality, I have longed unceasingly to make pictures of people ... to make likenesses that are biographies, to bring out in each photograph the essential temperament that is called, soul, humanity. ~ Gertrude Kasebier

Repeating then is in every one, in every one their being
and their feeling and their way of realising everything
and every one comes out of them in repeating. More
and more then every one comes to be clear to some one. ~ Gertrude Stein

The doctors told me my hearing would get worse if I continued swimming, but I loved the water so much, I just couldn't stop. ~ Gertrude Ederle

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class ... ~ Gertrude Atherton

Callous is something that hardening leaves behind what will be soft if there is a genuine interest in there being present as many girls as men. Does this change. It shows that dirt is clean when there is a volume. ~ Gertrude Stein

By some people the meal itself is a long delay between the appetizer and the dessert. ~ Gertrude Berg

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober. ~ Gertrude Stein

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles. ~ Gertrude Stein

The bagel is a lonely roll to eat all by yourself because in order for the true taste to come out you need your family. One to cut the bagels, one to toast them, one to put on the cream cheese and the lox, one to put them on the table and one to supervise. ~ Gertrude Berg

But her role had changed; she was now available for marriage and her primary task was to find a mate. As Florence and Hugh Bell's daughter, she was expected to make an excellent match. And if there wasn't one here, at least she would learn how to conduct herself for the chase. ~ Janet Wallach

There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War. ~ Gertrude Stein

Romance is everything. ~ Gertrude Stein

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true. ~ Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead. ~ Edward Hirsch

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences. ~ Gertrude Stein

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling. ~ Gertrude Stein

I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one. ~ Gertrude Stein

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great. ~ James Laughlin

Books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive. ~ Gertrude Atherton

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. ~ Gertrude Stein

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything. ~ Gertrude Stein

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style. ~ Gertrude Stein

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. ~ Gertrude Stein

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking. ~ Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass. ~ Elizabeth Hardwick

Nature and man are opposed in Spain. ~ Gertrude Stein

told them that just one of the old valentines was worth many dollars, ~ Gertrude Chandler Warner

It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well who might otherwise have died of diseases like leukemia, kidney failure, and herpes virus encephalitis cannot be described in words. ~ Gertrude B. Elion

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. ~ Gertrude Stein

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet. ~ Anne Carson

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time. ~ Gertrude Atherton

Nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of seeing and being seen. ~ Gertrude Stein

I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first. ~ Gertrude Atherton

The young man looked at her a moment. 'You are very much changed,' he said.
'I am glad to hear it,' Gertrude declared.
'I am not. I have known you a long time, and I have loved you as you were.'
'I am much obliged to you,' said Gertrude. 'I must be going home.'
He, on his side, gave a little laugh. 'You certainly do avoid me - you see!'
'Avoid me, then.' said the girl.
He looked at her again; and then, very gently, 'No, I will not avoid you,' he replied; 'but I will leave you, for the present, to yourself. I think you will remember - after a while - some of the things you have forgotten. I think you will come back to me; I have great faith in that.'
This time his voice was very touching; there was a strong reproachful force in what he said, and Gertrude could answer nothing. He turned away and stood there, leaning his elbows on the gate and looking at the beautiful sunset. Gertrude left him and took her way home again; but when she reached the middle of the next field she suddenly burst into tears. Her tears seemed to her to have been a long time gathering, and for some moments it was a kind of glee to shed them. But they presently passed away. There was something a little hard in Gertrude; and she never wept again. ~ Henry James

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. ~ Gertrude Stein