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
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I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life -- and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
life knowing happenings
I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.
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Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.
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I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.
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Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
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Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
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I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
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I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.
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To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
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I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
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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.
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He was nothing but a tool. ... He had no thought, no part in the painting, except that he could do what I told him to do.
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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.
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Since I cannot sing, I paint.