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Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Abstraction category:
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Abstraction category:
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Accidents category:
I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Application category:
Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Art category:
What is art anyway? (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Art category:
Wise men say it isn't art! But what of it, if it is children and love in paint? (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Audience category:
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something... anything I had done... than anyone else I know of... (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Beauty category:
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Beauty category:
The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Blocks category:
I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Choices category:
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Colour category:
Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color? (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Colour category:
I found I could say things with colors that I couldn't say in any other way – things that I had no words for. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Colour category:
I know I cannot paint a flower. I cannot paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning, but maybe in terms of paint color I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Colour category:
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands... (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Colour category:
There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Communication category:
I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it – I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Construction category:
-on flower series...
I'll make them big like huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they will have to look at them. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Copying category:
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could... I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at... not copy it. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Courage category:
To create one's own world, in any of the arts, takes courage. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Courage category:
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Critics category:
I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it – how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that the critics can write what they please. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Critics category:
You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower – and I don't. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Danger category:
I have lived on a razor's edge. So what if you fall off - I'd rather be doing something I really wanted to do. I'd walk it again. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Desire category:
I'm glad I want everything in the world – good and bad – bitter and sweet – I want it all. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Desire category:
One day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself - I can't live where I want to - I can't go where I want to go - I can't do what I want to - I can't even say what I want to... I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Destiny category:
I am going to be an artist! – I don't really know where I got my artist idea... I only know that by that time it was definitely settled in my mind. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Education category:
Schools and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to and say what I want to when I painted... (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Ego category:
The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Eroticism category:
When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Expression category:
I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself? (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Expression category:
I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Fear category:
I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never! (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Freedom category:
It was all so far away... there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Freedom category:
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Gender category:
Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ...I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Gender category:
I feel there is something unexplored about women that only a woman can explore. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Generosity category:
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Growth category:
My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth... (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Happiness category:
I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary - you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Imagination category:
I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Importance category:
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Individuality category:
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality... and it has helped me to say what I want to say... in paint. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Insecurity category:
I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things – I hate to show them – I am perfectly inconsistent about it – I am afraid people won't understand – and I hope they won't – and am afraid they will. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Interest category:
Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Intimacy category:
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Joy category:
- arriving in New Mexico...
Well! Well! Well!... This is wonderful. No one told me it was like this! (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Life category:
The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Light category:
My first memory is of the brightness of light... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground... very large white pillows... (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Meaning category:
Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Originality category:
I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me... shapes and ideas so near to me... so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down... (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Painting category:
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Painting category:
One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Patriotism category:
One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Perfection category:
There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Possessions category:
It's my private mountain. It belongs to me. God told me if I painted it enough, I could have it. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Questions category:
Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper? (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Realism category:
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified until it can be nothing but abstraction. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Relaxation category:
There was a long weathered carpenter's bench under the tall tree in front of the little old house that Lawrence had lived in there. I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree... past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Religion category:
When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore... unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Seeing category:
Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven't time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Sight category:
-in later years...
When you get so that you can't see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn't come by it gradually, I guess you'd just kill yourself when you couldn't see. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Solitude category:
I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Space category:
Fill a space in a beautiful way. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Subject category:
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Success category:
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Time category:
In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting and so the days go by. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Truth category:
I decided to accept as true my own thinking. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Understanding category:
-on New Mexico...
Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Uniqueness category:
-to her house guests...
Come quickly. You mustn't miss the dawn. It will never be just like this again. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Unknowns category:
Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp... (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Wonder category:
A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Words category:
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way – things I had no words for. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Georgia O'Keeffe - From the Work category:
One works because I suppose it is the most interesting thing one knows to do. The days one works are the best days. On the other days one is hurrying through the other things one imagines one has to do to keep one's life going... (Georgia O'Keeffe)
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