Gertrude Quotes

• Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies in its loquacity and verbosity the curious paradox of the minimalist form. This art of the nuance in repetition and placement she shares with the orchestral compositions of Philip Glass.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Art, Glasses, Silence

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1998). “Sight-readings: American Fictions”, Random House Incorporated

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• 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

  Bells, Now And Then, Clicks

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

  Leslie Fiedler

  Married, Frail

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• The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

  Diana Vreeland

  Girl, Two, Century

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• A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait. Gertrude said, “I don’t look like that.” And Picasso replied, “You will.” And he was right.

  James A. Baldwin

  Reality, Risk, Portraits

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• I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.

  Gertrude Stein

  Si

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• Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

  Clifton Fadiman

  Happens, Things Happen

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• Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done.

  Edward Abbey

  Bed, Done

  Edward Abbey (2015). "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness", p.38, RosettaBooks.

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• ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.

  Frederick Buechner

  Long, Giving, Silence

  Frederick Buechner (1973). "Wishful thinking: a theological ABC", Harper San Francisco

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• 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.

  Gertrude Stein

  Art, Differences, Portraits

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.2098, e-artnow

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• Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Judging, Feelings

  "The portable Jack Kerouac".

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• Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and walk with anything, either male or female?

  Roddy Piper

  Mean, Wrestling, Males

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• Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having ascertained the exact shop, coat and price, Ms. Lawrence returned from her lunch break wearing that coat, apparently in order to flaunt and emphasize her greater purchasing power and, by inference, her superior status.

  Sheridan Morley

  Dream, Order, Lunch Break

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• Gertrude Jekyll, al igual que Monet, era una pintora con problemas de visión, y sus jardines -el de él en Giverny, en el valle del Sena, y el de ella en Surrey- tenían semejanzas que podrían haber surgido de esta condición. A ambos les encantaban las plantas que espumaban sobre muros y pérgolas, que se extendían en mareas bajo los árboles; ambos veían las flores en islas de luz coloreada, una imagen que el ojo normal sólo capta entrecerrando los ojos.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Amor, Pared, Flor

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• Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

  Dorothy Parker

  People, Generations, Lost

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• He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

  Ana Carson

  Poet, Difficult, Intervals

  Anne Carson (1999). "Autobiografía de Red: A Novel in Verse", Vintage

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• I think one percent of the population attended college when Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein were at Harvard. Now I think forty percent of Americans have some college education. That's an astronomical change.

  Robert Hass

  College, Thinking, Frost

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.

  Paul Bowles

  Artist, Clay, Pot

  Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• [Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.

  James Laughlin

  Plot, Needed Someone, Bits

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• Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in Poetry, and a year's worth of a PhD, Stein was an author I had to discover on my own. She wasn't on the syllabus anywhere in all that time.

  Laura Mullen

  Years, Syllabus, Phds

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Ponla en la tierra: y de su hermosa e impoluta carne brotarán violetas. Te digo, cura maleducado, que mi hermana será un ángel ministerial, cuando tú yazcas aullando. HAMLET. ¡Qué, la bella Ofelia! REINA GERTRUDIS. Dulces a la dulce: ¡adiós!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Spring

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [265]

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• When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things . Not to invalidate your experience or all the great feelings you have, I tell them. Although poetry may be good for you, it's not therapy. You're making something with words which are visceral, muscular, active, not just markers of how you feel. And we have classes studying William Blake, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Stein.

  Anne Waldman

  School, Class, Feelings

  Fuente: www.raintaxi.com

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• If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.

  Marianne Williamson

  Daughter, Teaching, Thinking

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of this is when someone has a visitor and says, "Go kiss Aunt Gertrude," and Aunt Gertrude says, "She doesn't have to kiss me if she doesn't want to." Well, I think that's wrong.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Kids, Kissing

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• En una notable familia llamada Stein
  Estaban Gertrude, y Ep, y luego Ein.
  La escritura de Gert era nebulosa,
  Las estatuas de Ep eran locas,
  Y nadie entendía a Ein.

  Bennett Cerf

  Crazy, Writing, Poetry

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