Gertrude Stein Quotes

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Act so that there is no use in a center.

A piece of crystal. A change, in a change that is remarkable there is no reason to say that there was a time.

It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. (Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures)

There is no there there.

You are all a lost generation.

Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.

Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer.

It is an extraordinary thing but it is true, wars are only a means of publicising the things already accomplished.

A master-piece … may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.