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
Georgia O'Keeffe quotes about
hate people feelings
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.
earth miles painter
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands...
way seems
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.
beauty kindness cutting
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.
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.
creativity acceptance half
I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.
beautiful believe hands
One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella-- --When I had it in my hand it was so small I couldn't believe I had it--but I could feel the intense life--so intense and so tiny-- ...You were like the humming bird to me... And I am rather inclined to feel that you and I know the best part of one another without spending much time together-- --It is not that I fear the knowing-- It is that I am at this moment willing to let you be what you are to me--it is beautiful and pure and very intensely alive.
frightened
I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!
criticism flattery drains
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.