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
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. Leslie Fiedler
When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring. Rick Moody
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly. Clifton Fadiman
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. Raymond Queneau
