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
nature flower garden
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
stupid fool want
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.
inspirational dream motivation
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
flower freedom-of-speech together
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
flower too-much painting
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
flower mean thinking
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
flower thinking ideas
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.
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.
beautiful space way
Fill a space in a beautiful way.
making-love photograph modeling
We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)
eye way photograph
I never knew [Alfred Stieglitz] to make a trip anywhere to photograph. His eye was in him, and he used it on anything that was nearby. Maybe that way he was always photographing himself.
flower america can-not
One can not 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.