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
men skills ideas
Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ...I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me.
people wonderful unreasonable
I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.
earth miles painter
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands...
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.
people tree might
If only people were trees… I might like them better.
new-york thinking symbolism
I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them.
paint ifs originals
If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?
beautiful men sky
So, probably … when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones — what I saw through them- particularly the blue from holding them up in the sun against the sky as one is apt to do when one seems to have more sky than earth in one’s world … they were most beautiful against the Blue — that Blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.
artist intuition wish
Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect wishes to arrange — intuition wishes to accept.
art wicked wicked-things
Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.
writing mind criticism
I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.
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.
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.
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.