Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes - Page 5

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• His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Water, Letters, Cold

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

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Freedom Of Speech, Together

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Anita Pollitzer (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• 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

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• 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

  Stars, Flower, Past

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

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• 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

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• There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Black, Color Black, Feels

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• I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Art Is, Knows

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• I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Creativity, Acceptance, Half

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• If only people were trees… I might like them better.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  People, Tree, Might

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• He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow - in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many different ways - also my head - and I had to turn this way and that. There were nudes that might have been of several different people - sitting - standing - even standing upon the radiator against the window - that was difficult - radiators don't intend you to stand on top of them. (On being photographed by Alfred Stieglitz)

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Moving, Hands, People

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.207, UPNE

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• I never knew [Alfred Stieglitz] to make a trip anywhere to photograph. His eye was in him, and he used it on anything that was nearby. Maybe that way he was always photographing himself.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Eye, Way, Photograph

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• The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Paint, Form

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.15, Hudson Hills

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• It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Appreciate

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• 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

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• I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Skills, Trying, Painting

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Bice Curiger, Carter Ratcliff, Peter Johannes Schneemann, Kunsthaus Zürich (2003). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Cantz

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• 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

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• We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Heart, Blind, Born

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• War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  War, Soldier, Killing

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• I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Painting, Reason, Form

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• Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Wall, Trying, Paper

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.127, UPNE

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• Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Painting, Abstract, Objectives

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

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• I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle many times, I did a misty landscape of the mountain across the lake,
  and the mountain became the shape of the shingle - the mountain I saw out my window, the shingle on the table in my room. I did not notice that they were alike for a long time after they
  were painted.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Lakes, Knowing, Long

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

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• 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.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Fashion, Goes On, Painting

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• Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Easy, Paint, Application

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Clive Giboire (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then the woods with a few birch trees shining white at the edge on beyond. In the darkness it all looked just like I felt. Wet and swampy and gloomy, very gloomy. In the morning I painted it. My memory of it is that it was probably my best painting that summer.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Summer, Morning, Memories

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

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