Gertrude Stein Quotes about Art

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Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.

Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.

Gertrude Stein

Art, Art Is

art is the pulse of a nation.

Gertrude Stein

Art, Pulse, Art Is

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

Gertrude Stein

Art, Creating, Long

"Composition as Explanation". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1926.

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

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

Gertrude Stein

Art, Classic, Outlaw

Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.496, Northwestern University Press

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

Gertrude Stein

Art, Matter, Function

Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet

Gertrude Stein

Art, Weather, Asparagus

Gertrude Stein (2014). “Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition”, p.52, City Lights Publishers

... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.

Gertrude Stein

Art, Wind, Land

Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

Gertrude Stein

Art, Has Beens, Officials

Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.30, Vintage

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Gertrude Stein

Art, Differences, People

Gertrude Stein (2012). “Ida: A Novel”, p.326, Yale University Press