For some forty years, the Stein home on the Left Bank of Paris would become a renowned Saturday evening gathering place for expatriate American artists and writers, and others noteworthy in the world of vanguard arts and letters. says Wikipedia.
Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946) was a noted American art collector of seminal modernist paintings and an experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays. She moved to Paris in 1903, making France her home for the remainder of her life.
"A rose is a rose is a rose" is probably her most famous quotation, often interpreted as meaning "things are what they are," a statement of the law of identity, "A is A". In Stein's view, the sentence expresses the fact that simply using the name of a thing already invokes the imagery and emotions associated with it.
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