Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes - Page 4

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• School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself. I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.

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  Stupid, School, Shapes

  Foreword to the catalogue for the show at the Anderson Galleries in New York, 1926.

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• The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty.

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  Beauty, Kindness, Cutting

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.365, UPNE

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• The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty, I thought 'I can paint one of those dismal-coloured paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try - all low-toned and dreary with the tree besides the door.' In my next show, 'The Shanty' went up. The men seemed to approve of it. They seemed to think that maybe I was beginning to paint. That was my only low-toned dismal-coloured painting.

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  Fun, Men, Thinking

  "Some Memories of Drawings". Book by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1974.

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• I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint colour I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.

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  Summer, Morning, Flower

  Britta Benke, Georgia O'Keeffe (2000). “O'Keeffe”

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• The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.

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  Simple, Ego, Facts

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.267, UPNE

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• I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.

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  Ideas, Long, Track

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

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• If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

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  Paint, Originals, Ifs

  Ruth Fine, Georgia O'Keeffe, Barbara Buhler Lynes, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (2000). “O'Keeffe on Paper”

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• You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.

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  Flower, Writing, Thinking

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.76, Infobase Publishing

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• Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.

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  Art, Color, Tree

  Britta Benke, Georgia O'Keeffe (2000). “O'Keeffe”

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• All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.

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  Earth, Miles, Painter

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• It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog.

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  Dog, Waiting, Missions

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• I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.

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  Inspirational, Fall, Creativity

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• When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too...I have used these things to say what is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.

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  Beautiful, Home, White

  Britta Benke, Georgia O'Keeffe (2000). “O'Keeffe”

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• I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

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  Art, Art Is, Knows

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• There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.

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  Lakes, Perfect, Tree

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.272, UPNE

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• I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did.

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  Flower, Artist, People

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.278, UPNE

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• Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

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  Flower, Mean, Thinking

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

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• I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.

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  Sweet, Desire, World

  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 unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.

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  Understanding, Feelings, Trying

  "Some Memories of Drawings". Book by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1974.

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• Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Mean, Expression, Voice

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

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• If only people were trees… I might like them better.

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  People, Tree, Might

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• Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.

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  Thinking, Rocks, Ideas

  Britta Benke, Georgia O'Keeffe (2000). “O'Keeffe”

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• We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

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  Heart, Blind, Born

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• Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color?

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  Flower, Color, Focus

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• I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.

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  Mean, Thinking, Expression

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