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
art believe black-and-white
I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.
thinking rocks ideas
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.
stupid fool want
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.
inspiring art flower
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
flower thinking ideas
I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.
flower too-much painting
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
art new-york flower
One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
flower freedom-of-speech together
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
art flower copies
I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
inspirational nature flower
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.
women flower georgia
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
letting-go flower learning
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
inspirational dream motivation
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
stars flower past
I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.