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
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.
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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.
anyone head ideas natural near occurred shapes taught thinking
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.
absolutely courage life moment single terrified
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life -- and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
vision important catching
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...
inspirational life courage
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
real confusing details
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.
flower way paint
A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.
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.
flower believe done
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.
flower writing thinking
You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.
writing mind criticism
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. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
beautiful art mean
Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.
real sky want
I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.