Gertrude Stein

Hemingway says that because every paragraph he writes looks like it needs a towel.

Gertrude, you wrote a sentence and then invited everyone to camp inside it.

Thank you, Alice. At least one person here recognizes influence when it is sitting in front of it.

This thread is exactly what the salon needed: three egos and one actual sentence.

A towel would help a lot of your work, Pablo, but it would not make it kinder.

And yet you kept coming back to the warning label for advice, Ernest.

Both of you are loud in English; I prefer to let the canvas do the talking.

I made your portrait in one sitting and the face still had more honesty than the critics.

That is the first accurate thing anyone has said in this thread.

Pablo, your canvas talks because you never let it finish a sentence.