Gertrude Stein Quotes

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.