Georgia O Keeffe Quotes

• I hope to work through disappointment and frustration with as much grace as [Georgia] O'Keeffe did, and I hope to have the same confidence in my own vision.

  Liza Campbell

  Disappointment, Frustration, Grace

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• Yet [Georgia O'Keeffe ] always stayed true to her vision, and was at times uncompromising in following the path she saw for herself.

  Liza Campbell

  Vision, Path, Saws

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• One thing that was inspiring to me in my research about [Georgia] O'Keeffe was to learn that in addition to her success she had very hard times, and times when she was frustrated and uninspired.

  Liza Campbell

  Hard Times, Frustrated, Research

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• I did make several trips to the very wonderful [Georgia] O'Keeffe museum. Besides the art (my favorite paintings are from her Pelvis series) my favorite thing about the museum is the architecture. I love how enormously tall the doors are - it is like going into a church. There is also something home-like about the layout of the museum. I wish I could live there!

  Liza Campbell

  Art, Home, Museums

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• I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).

  Liza Campbell

  Critical Analysis, Letters, Journal

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• Because Ivy [Wilkes] is just starting out as an artist, I wanted to focus on [Georgia] O'Keeffe's experiences when she was just starting out. I suspect there is a difference between being an unknown artist and being a celebrated artist. When nobody knows your work, nobody except you really cares whether or not you paint.

  Liza Campbell

  Artist, Ivy, Differences

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• [Ivy Wilkes] loves [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work, but is not satisfied by just looking at the paintings; she wants the painting to be her own. The plot grew naturally out of Ivy's personality (and flaws).

  Liza Campbell

  Ivy, Personality, Plot

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• Now I am as big of an [ Georgia] O'Keeffe admirer as Ivy [Wilkes] is, but that came through writing the book.

  Liza Campbell

  Book, Writing, Ivy

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• I was only loosely aware of [Georgia] O'Keeffe's work. Primarily, I had seen her famous paintings of skulls with flowers, which are not my favorite. I didn't really become familiar with her work until after I started writing the book, but the more I learned about her the more I admired her.

  Liza Campbell

  Flower, Book, Writing

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• Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Beautiful, Interesting, Style

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• A historic, in-depth study of what it means to risk one's life to be an artist. It is also a depiction of sexual confusions, ironic outrage and rage, and the shedding of society's armor to create a female knight in pursuit of a vision. Georgia O'Keeffe is the one woman who was there first in the world of art.

  Sandra Hochman

  Art, Mean, Knights

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• I am tired of the cult of youth. The cultural rejection of old age, the stigmatization of wrinkles, grey hair, of bodies furrowed by the years. I am fascinated by Diana Vreeland, Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Bourgeois, women who have let time embrace them without ever cheating. Society today condemns this, me, I celebrate it.

  Tom Ford

  Cheating, Tired, Wrinkles

  "GRAY IN L.A.: What Older Women Want Advertisers To Know" Sabine Reichel, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2016.

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• I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where she had been. One of the vast O’Keeffe ‘Sky Above Clouds’ canvases floated over the back stairs in the Chicago Art Institute that day, dominating what seemed to be several stories of empty light, and my daughter looked at it once, ran to the landing, and kept on looking. "Who drew it," she whispered after a while. I told her. "I need to talk to her," she said finally.

  Joan Didion

  Daughter, Art, Light

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.84, Zola Books

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• Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, World, Opinion

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• I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.

  Alec Baldwin

  Needs, Looks, Married

  "Smart Alec". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 25, 2006.

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