Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it would not give the observer the kind of feeling it gave me. I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at-not copy it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Long Ago, Giving

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Pincus-Witten, Hirschl & Adler Galleries (1986). “Georgia O'Keeffe: selected paintings and works on paper : April 26 through June 6, 1986”, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Incorporated

• 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

  Understanding, Feelings, Trying

  "Some Memories of Drawings". Book by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1974.

• I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Mean, Thinking, Expression

• I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things - I hate to show them - I am perfectly inconsistent about it - I am afraid people won't understand - and I hope they won't - and am afraid they will.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Hate, People, Feelings

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.112, UPNE

• A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Feelings, Mountain, Today

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