Famous Gertrude Stein Quotes


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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American art collector of seminal modernist paintings and an experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays that eschewed the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of 19th-century literature.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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We are always the same age inside.
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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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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.
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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Very likely education does not make very much difference.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
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