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
moving hands people
He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow - in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many different ways - also my head - and I had to turn this way and that. There were nudes that might have been of several different people - sitting - standing - even standing upon the radiator against the window - that was difficult - radiators don't intend you to stand on top of them. (On being photographed by Alfred Stieglitz)
art paint intangible
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
dog waiting missions
It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog.
beautiful art mean
Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.
flower color focus
Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color?
thinking people erotic
When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.
real sky want
I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.
art color tree
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.
people use taught
I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit.
thinking people tree
I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.
flower believe done
I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.
inspirational courage art
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
men blue sun
Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.
imagination
Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.