Gertrude Stein Quotes

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

Art has no function. It is not necessary. It has nothing to do with what anyone wants you to do or wants it to be, nothing but you and itself. The work generates itself and ideas and progress and learning come out of doing the work in a particular way. Creative art is a learning […]

“What is the answer?” she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: “Then, what is the question?”

There ain’t no answer. There ain’t going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.

We are always the same age inside.

You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

If you can do it then why do it?