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
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 america can-not
One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.
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.
nature flower garden
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.
flower writing thinking
I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.
flower mean thinking
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
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.
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.
flower thinking ideas
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.
flower too-much painting
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
art new-york flower
One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
flower freedom-of-speech together
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
art flower copies
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
inspirational nature flower
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.