Gertrude Stein Quotes (114 Quotes)

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

What is the answer Silence In that case, what is the question.