Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes - Page 2

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

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  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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• 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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• God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Artist, Mountain, Painting

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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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• 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

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• I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Thinking, Matter, Enough

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

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• Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Happiness, Wind, Interesting

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• I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Ideas, Everyday

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• The meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Color, Shapes, Definite

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

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• Since I cannot sing, I paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Artist, Paint

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

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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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• Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Wicked, Wicked Things

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• Dearest - my body is simply crazy with wanting you - If you don't come tomorrow - I don't see how I can wait for you - I wonder if your body wants mine the way mine wants yours - the kisses - the hotness - the wetness - all melting together - the being held so tight that it hurts - the strangle and the struggle.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Hurt, Crazy, Struggle

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• Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ...I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Men, Skills, Ideas

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• I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Wall, Imagination, Imagine

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

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• The days you work are the best days.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Art, Flower

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

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• I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Thinking, People, Tree

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

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• Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Thinking, Color, Effort

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

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• The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Running, Painting, Reason

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

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• Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect
  wishes to arrange — intuition wishes to accept.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Artist, Intuition, Wish

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 167, 1988.

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• I decided to accept as true my own thinking.

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  Thinking, Accepting, My Own

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Amarillo Art Center, West Texas State University (1985). “Georgia O'Keeffe & her contemporaries: Amarillo Art Center, September 7-December 1, 1985 in honor of the 75th anniversary of West Texas State University”

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• 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

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• Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Men, Blue, Sun

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

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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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• You are one of my nicest thoughts.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.310, UPNE

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