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
american-artist anyone natural near occurred shapes taught
I said to myself, 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.
except
He was nothing but a tool. ... He had no thought, no part in the painting, except that he could do what I told him to do.
ideas track long
I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.
quilts memories light
My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.
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.
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.
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)
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.
quilts memories light
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 ...