Georgia O'Keeffe Men Quotations

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.

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.

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

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

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.

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.

So, probably … when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones — what I saw through them- particularly the blue from holding them up in the sun against the sky as one is apt to do when one seems to have more sky than earth in one’s world … they were most beautiful against the Blue — that Blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.

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.

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.

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