Gertrude Stein - Generation Quotes

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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.

Gertrude Stein
One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

Gertrude Stein
All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation... You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.

Gertrude Stein
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
A creator who creates, who is not an academician, who is not someone who studies in a school where the rules are already known, and of course being known they no longer exist, a creator then who creates is necessarily of his generation. His generation lives in its contemporary way but they only live in it. In art, in literature, in the theatre, in short in everything that does not contribute to their immediate comfort they live in the preceding generation.

Gertrude Stein
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Gertrude Stein
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.

Gertrude Stein
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

Gertrude Stein