Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia Totto O'Keeffewas an American artist. She is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth15 November 1887
CitySun Prairie, WI
CountryUnited States of America
life travel done
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.
flower writing thinking
You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.
ideas track long
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.
country flower quiet
It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.
feelings mountain today
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.
flower way paint
A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big.
real confusing details
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.
writing mind criticism
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.
art flower paint
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
art hate flower
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
wall imagination imagine
I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.
thinking accepting my-own
I decided to accept as true my own thinking.
war soldier killing
War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.
life beautiful art
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.