Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

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• Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.256, UPNE

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• The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Funny, Women, Thinking

  Quoted in WChadwick Women, Art and Society (1990).

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• 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

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• I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

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  Inspiring, Art, Flower

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

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• I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Thinking, Things In Life, People

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• 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

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• Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

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  Beautiful, Art, Mean

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.90, UPNE

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• 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).

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• 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

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• Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Self, Should Have, Vision

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• Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Things In Life, Important, Life Happiness

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

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  Art, Flower, Paint

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• Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

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  Life, Travel, Attitude

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.13, Infobase Publishing

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• I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Believe, Black And White

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

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• 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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• I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Criticism, Flattery, Drains

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.70, Infobase Publishing

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• Fill a space in a beautiful way.

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  Beautiful, Art, Space

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

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• 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).

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• It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Nice, Nerves, Being Nice

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

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  Inspirational, Courage, Art

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• When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Thinking, People, Erotic

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• Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

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  Real, Confusing, Details

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Jonathan Stuhlman, Barbara Buhler Lynes (2007). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction”, p.22, Hudson Hills

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• My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.

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  Giving, World, Giving Back

  Jennifer Saville, Georgia O'Keeffe, Honolulu Academy of Arts (1990). “Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i”

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• Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Vision, Important, Catching

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.256, UPNE

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• One works because I suppose it is the most interesting thing one knows to do. The days one works are the best days. On the other days one is hurrying through the other things one imagines one has to do to keep one's life going.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Interesting, Imagine, Knows

  Katherine Hoffman, Georgia O'Keeffe (1984). “An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe”, Scarecrow Pr

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