Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

About Georgia O'Keeffe:

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe 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".
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Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Georgia O'Keeffe

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

Georgia O'Keeffe

The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.

Georgia O'Keeffe

The days you work are the best days.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Author Bio

  • NameGeorgia O'Keeffe
  • Descriptionpainter
  • BornNovember 15, 1887
  • DiedMarch 6, 1986
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBotanical Illustrator; Painter
  • WorksHorse's Skull On Blue
  • AwardsNational Medal Of Arts; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; National Women's Hall Of Fame