Art Quotes by Gertrude Stein

The artist works by locating the world in himself

— Gertrude Stein

Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.

— Gertrude Stein

art is the pulse of a nation.

— Gertrude Stein

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

— Gertrude Stein

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

— Gertrude Stein

Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet

— Gertrude Stein

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

— Gertrude Stein

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

— Gertrude Stein

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look…

— Gertrude Stein

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do…

— 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…

— Gertrude Stein

... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or…

— Gertrude Stein

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that…

— Gertrude Stein