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 arts courage create takes
To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
american-artist cheaper hate models paint
I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
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.
artist paint
Since I cannot sing, I paint.
art flower appreciate
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
flower artist people
I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did.
artist ideas mind
I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.
believe artist world
I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.
artist mountain painting
God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.
art ideas everyday
I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.
art flower fragments
I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.
art believe black-and-white
I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.
inspiring art flower
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
art new-york flower
One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.