Gertrude Stein Art Quotations

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.

... 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.

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

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

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

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.

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

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.

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

art is the pulse of a nation.

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