Quotes from Gertrude Stein

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

Argument is to me the air I breathe.

art is the pulse of a nation.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

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

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

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

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

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

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

We are always the same age inside.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

You have to learn to do everything even to die.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.

Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.

I am I because my little dog knows me.