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 cheaper hate models paint
I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
artist paint
Since I cannot sing, I paint.
skills trying painting
I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.
giving world painting
My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.
fashion goes-on painting
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified until it can be nothing but abstraction.
artist mountain painting
God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.
stupid fool paint
I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.
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.
easy paint application
Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.
painting reason form
I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.
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.
paint ifs originals
If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?
art paint intangible
The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.