Gertrude Quotes

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.
Jerry Saltz

Art, She, Until

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

Thought, Married, Almost

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.
Clifton Fadiman

Nothing, Happen, Making

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

Seems, Literature, Determined

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.
James Laughlin

Great, Used, Head

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand.
Alice B. Toklas

Evening, Understand, Said

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