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Gertrude Stein

"The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it."

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"The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it."

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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

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"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."

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"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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"What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?"
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"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."
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