Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Steinwas an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures in modernism in literature and art would meet, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 February 1874
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Gertrude Stein quotes about
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
There is no such thing as being good to your wife.
One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
You never answer a question nobody does.
How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.
Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.