Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
Gertrude SteinThere is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.
Gertrude Stein