Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes About Bones

Quotes about: Bones

• 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

  Men, Blue, Sun

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Richard Marshall, Yvonne Scott, Achille Bonito Oliva, Vancouver Art Gallery (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: nature and abstraction”, Skira - Berenice

• When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too...I have used these things to say what is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beautiful, Home, White

  Britta Benke, Georgia O'Keeffe (2000). “O'Keeffe”

• So, probably … when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones — what I saw through them- particularly the blue from holding them up in the sun
  against the sky as one is apt to do when one seems to have more sky than earth in one’s world … they were most beautiful against the Blue — that Blue that will always be there as it is now
  after all man’s destruction is finished.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beautiful, Men, Blue

  Katherine Hoffman, Georgia O'Keeffe (1984). “An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe”, Scarecrow Pr

• The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beauty, Kindness, Cutting

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.365, UPNE

• I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  New York, Thinking, Symbolism

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