Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes - Page 3

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• The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Morning, People, Solitude

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• I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Copies

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

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• I want real things ... music that makes holes in the sky.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Real, Sky, Want

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• My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Shining, Growth, Mind

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.399, UPNE

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• It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  People, Reason Why, Dies

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

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• A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Way, Paint

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• I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Frightened

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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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• My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Quilts, Memories, Light

  "An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe".

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• I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it-how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that, the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Writing, Mind, Criticism

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

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• I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Writing, Mind, Criticism

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• It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Country, Men, Sky

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.508, UPNE

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• I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Hate, Flower

  Quoted in N.Y. Herald Tribune, 18 Apr. 1954

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• I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Stupid, Want, Fool

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.257, UPNE

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• I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Happiness, Ideas, Busy

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

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• I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Fragments

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Pincus-Witten, Hirschl & Adler Galleries (1986). “Georgia O'Keeffe: selected paintings and works on paper : April 26 through June 6, 1986”, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Incorporated

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• I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Letting Go, Flower, Learning

  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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• One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella-- --When I had it in my hand it was so small I couldn't believe I had it--but I could feel the intense life--so intense and so tiny-- ...You were like the humming bird to me... And I am rather inclined to feel that you and I know the best part of one another without spending much time together-- --It is not that I fear the knowing-- It is that I am at this moment willing to let you be what you are to me--it is beautiful and pure and very intensely alive.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beautiful, Believe, Hands

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• When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beautiful, Country, Regret

  Maria Costantino, Georgia O'Keeffe (1994). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Smithmark Pub

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• That nervous energy that makes people like you and I want and go after everything in the world - bump our heads on all the hard walls and scratch our hands on all the briars - but it makes living great - doesn't it - I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all and a lot of it too

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Sweet, Wall, Ambition

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

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• In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting and so the days go by.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Watches, Desert, Littles

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• I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, People

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• I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Ideas, Shapes, Taught

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Doris Bry (1988). “Some Memories of Drawings”, Atlantis Editions Book

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• I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things - I hate to show them - I am perfectly inconsistent about it - I am afraid people won't understand - and I hope they won't - and am afraid they will.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Hate, People, Feelings

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.112, UPNE

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• I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  People, Use, Taught

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Barbara J. Bloemink, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design (1995). “Georgia O'Keeffe: Canyon suite”, George Braziller

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