Gertrude Stein

"Identity is theft."

"Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches."

"No artist needs criticism, he only needs appreciation. If he needs criticism he is no artist."

"A Picasso is a wonderful painting because it is a Picasso."

"Human nature is not black and white but black and grey."

"Genius is in not knowing where to stop."

"The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is looking."

"One must dare to be happy."

"Each period of time in history is very much like the others if you know what I mean."

"It is wonderful how much depends upon the disposition of the chairman."

"Women are half of the world and usually the better half so it is with the arts."

"The earth is the earth as a poet said."

"In the United States the country changes but the population remains the same."

"Anybody can be just like me, obviously I want people like me, I think everybody should be like me."

"Either you know or you do not know that is all."

"War and photography and all the things that have to do with looks have to do with probability."

"Science is the acceptance of not knowing and the not knowing is the not the knowing."

"Forget the taste of his mouth, the softness of her hair, the whisper of his heart."

"One keeps repeating the same thing until it has been said."

"In America, everyone is an inventor because the need is the invention."

"There is no there there."

"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."

"I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich."

"Money is always there but the pockets change."

"It is wonderful the number of things one remembers."

"The twentieth century is very uninteresting because it is all repetition."

"This is a photograph as a photograph and not as a thing photographed or as a thing not photographed."

"Anybody who is anybody is alive and in America."

"You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don't dance. So you might as well dance."

"I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking."