Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes - Page 6

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• Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Teacher, Art, Believe

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• I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Real, Portraits, World

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Barbara Haskell, Museum of Fine Arts (Museum of New Mexico) (1985). “Georgia O'Keeffe, Works on Paper: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe”, Museum of New Mexico Pr

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• 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

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• I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Life, Knowing, Happenings

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

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• I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  People, Wonderful, Unreasonable

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

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• We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz)

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Making Love, Photograph, Modeling

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• I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Artist, Ideas, Mind

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

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• I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Believe, Artist, World

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

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• It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another world here-... always we go to a new place...the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Country, Nice, People

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• 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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• When you get so that you can't see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn't come by it gradually, I guess you'd just kill yourself when you couldn't see.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Sight, Killing Yourself, Ifs

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.515, UPNE

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• I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Way, Seems

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Masterworks Foundation, Bermuda National Gallery (1994). “Georgia O'Keeffe, the Bermuda respite: October 28, 1994-January 27, 1995”

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• I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Too Much, Painting

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.9, Infobase Publishing

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• 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

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