Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia Totto O'Keeffewas an American artist. She is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth15 November 1887
CitySun Prairie, WI
CountryUnited States of America
earth miles painter
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands...
easy paint application
Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.
writing mind criticism
I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.
things-in-life important life-happiness
Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.
running painting reason
The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.
summer morning flower
I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint colour 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.
women flower georgia
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
inspirational courage art
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
letting-go flower learning
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
nice nerves being-nice
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
making-love photograph modeling
We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)
real world portraits
I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.
teacher art believe
Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
fun men thinking
The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty, I thought 'I can paint one of those dismal-coloured paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try - all low-toned and dreary with the tree besides the door.' In my next show, 'The Shanty' went up. The men seemed to approve of it. They seemed to think that maybe I was beginning to paint ... that was my only low-toned dismal-coloured painting.