Top 103 Quotes by Gertrude Stein

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

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

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.