Jean Cocteau e Picasso

 

[...] "Era por essa altura que Jean Cocteau que se orgulha de ter uns eternos trinta anos estava a escrever uma pequena biografia de Picasso, e enviou-lhe um telegrama a pedir que lhe dissesse a data de nascimento. E a tua, foi o telegrama de resposta de Picasso."

Gertrude Stein, in A Autobiografia de Alice B. Toklas [pag225]

Na Rue de Fleurus

"Todos traziam alguém.  [...] Era de uma diversidade sem fim. E toda a gente vinha e ninguém fazia diferença nenhuma. Gertrude Stein sentava-se numa cadeira tranquila e quem podia fazia o mesmo, os restantes ficavam de pé. Havia os amigos que se sentavam à volta do fogão e falavam e havia os amigos sem fim que vinham e iam."

A Autobiografia de Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein  [pg 131]

A rose is a rose

Suppose, to suppose, suppose a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
To suppose, we suppose that there arose here and there that here
and there there arose and instance of knowing that there are
here and there that there are there that they will prepare, that
they do care to come again.
Are they to come again.

Gertrude Stein

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The name of the rose / a arbitrariedade do significante

"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose."
Gertrude Stein

 "Stat Rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus"
(yesterday's rose lasts in its name, we embrace empty names today)

 Juliet: "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
W. Shakespeare

o senso do não-senso

"Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out of selection comes painful cattle. So then the order is that a white way of being round is something suggesting a pin and is it disappointing, it is not, it is so rudimentary to be analysed and see a fine substance strangely, it is so earnest to have a green point not to red but to point again."
Gertrude Stein