Gertrude Stein citáty
Gertrude Stein
Datum narození: 3. únor 1874
Datum úmrtí: 27. červenec 1946
Další jména: Gertruda Steinová, Gertruda Stein
Gertrude Steinová byla významná americko-francouzská spisovatelka, dramatička a libretistka. Proslula také svým salonem, který provozovala ve vlastním domě na 27 Rue de Fleurus, jehož pravidelnými návštěvníky byli mimo jiné Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Riba-Rovira Henri Matisse a další významní umělci počátku 20. století.
Citáty Gertrude Stein
„Jste všichni ztracená generace.“
Zdroj: [Hemingway, Ernest, 1988, Fiesta, Svoboda, 1., 80-205-0265-3]
„We are always the same age inside.“
As quoted in The American Treasury, 1455-1955 (1955) edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946
„One has to remember that about imagination, that is when the world gets dull when everybody does not know what they can or what they cannot really imagine.“
Zdroj: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
Kontext: Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from anything. Well I was very fond of my brother and I could completely imagine his suffering and I replied that five thousand Chinamen were something I could not imagine and so it was not interesting.
One has to remember that about imagination, that is when the world gets dull when everybody does not know what they can or what they cannot really imagine.
„It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.“
Zdroj: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
„Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.“
Zdroj: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 4
Kontext: Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear. Now this is a simple thing that anybody who has ever argued or quarreled knows perfectly well is a simple thing, only when they read it they do not understand it because they do not see that understanding and believing are not the same thing.
