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
inspirational friendship time
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.
country flower crosses
Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.
country nice people
It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another world here-... always we go to a new place...the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.
easy paint application
Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.
simple ego facts
The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.
water letters cold
his letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty ...
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.
mean thinking expression
I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.
art art-is knows
I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.
painting reason form
I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.
things-in-life important life-happiness
Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.
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.
happiness wind interesting
Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.
color shapes statements
The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.