Art Quote by Gertrude Stein

“After a while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not…

— Gertrude Stein

I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.

— Gertrude Stein

I had learned of Gertrude Steins bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life…

— Harold E. Varmus

When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things . Not to…

— Anne Waldman

Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding… Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.

— Wyndham Lewis

ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't…

— Frederick Buechner

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

— Ernest Hemingway

Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are…

— Jack Kerouac

Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to…

— Edward Abbey

Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an…

— Laura Mullen

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those…

— Diana Vreeland

Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies…

— Elizabeth Hardwick