Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.56, Infobase Publishing

• 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

  Inspiring, Art, Flower

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.23, Infobase Publishing

• If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Nature, Flower, Garden

  Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

• When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Nature, Flower

  Quoted in N.Y. Post, 16 May 1946

• Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Friendship, Time

  Quoted in Goodrich and Bry GeorgiaO'Keeffe (1970).

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

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Courage, Art

• 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

  Flower, America, Feels

• 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

  Flower, Mean, Thinking

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.35, Infobase Publishing

• A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Way, Paint

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

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Hate, Flower

  Quoted in N.Y. Herald Tribune, 18 Apr. 1954

• I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Writing, Thinking

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.76, Infobase Publishing

• So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Looks

  Quoted in Goodrich and Bry GeorgiaO'Keeffe (1970).

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

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Paint

• A flower touches everyone's heart.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Nature, Flower, Heart

• Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color?

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Color, Focus

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

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Country, Flower, Crosses

  Charles C. Eldredge, Georgia O'Keeffe (1993). “Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern”, p.199, Yale University Press

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

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Believe, Flower, Done

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.45, Infobase Publishing

• The days you work are the best days.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Art, Flower

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Letting Go, Flower, Learning

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

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

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Copies

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.26, Hudson Hills

• 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

  Art, Flower, People

• 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

  Flower, Thinking, Ideas

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

• I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Women, Flower, Georgia

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.292, UPNE

• One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, New York, Flower

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.77, Infobase Publishing

• I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Fragments

  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

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