Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Steinwas an American novelist, poet, playwright and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures in modernism in literature and art would meet, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 February 1874
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
The artist works by locating the world in himself
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
There is no there there.
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.