American Artist Georgia O'Keeffe Best Quotes

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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.
– Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O'keeffe's Quotes On Happy In Small Feelings
Georgia O’keeffe’s Quotes On Happy In Small Feelings

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

Georgia O'keeffe's Quotes About Individuality
Georgia O’keeffe’s Quotes About Individuality

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.
– Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O'keeffe's Quotes On Her Own Thoughts And Ideas
Georgia O’keeffe’s Quotes On Her Own Thoughts And Ideas

It Was All So Far Away – There Was Quiet And An Untouched Feel To The Country And I Could Work As I Pleased.
– Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O'keeffe's Quotes About Her Feeling To Country
Georgia O’keeffe’s Quotes About Her Feeling To Country

You Get Whatever Accomplishment You Are Willing To Declare.
– Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O'keeffe's Success Quotes On Accomplishment
Georgia O’keeffe’s Success Quotes On Accomplishment

The Days You Work Are The Best Days.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

I Feel There Is Something Unexplored About Woman That Only A Woman Can Explore.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

I Hate Flowers – I Paint Them Because They’re Cheaper Than Models And They Don’t Move.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

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.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

Nobody Sees A Flower Really; It Is So Small. We Haven’t Time, And To See Takes Time – Like To Have A Friend Takes Time.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

I Believe I Would Rather Have Stieglitz Like Something – Anything I Had Done – Than Anyone Else I Know.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

I Decided To Start Anew, To Strip Away What I Had Been Taught.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

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.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

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.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

I Decided That If I Could Paint That Flower In A Huge Scale, You Could Not Ignore Its Beauty.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

I Found I Could Say Things With Color And Shapes That I Couldn’t Say Any Other Way – Things I Had No Words For.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

To Create One’s World In Any Of The Arts Takes Courage.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

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.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

I Had To Create An Equivalent For What I Felt About What I Was Looking At – Not Copy It.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

It Was In The 1920s, When Nobody Had Time To Reflect, That I Saw A Still-Life Painting With A Flower That Was Perfectly Exquisite, But So Small You Really Could Not Appreciate It.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

I Don’t Very Much Enjoy Looking At Paintings In General. I Know Too Much About Them. I Take Them Apart.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

Anyone Who Doesn’t Feel The Crosses Simply Doesn’t Get That Country.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

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

 

One Can Not Be An American By Going About Saying That One Is An American. It Is Necessary To Feel America, Like America, Love America And Then Work.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

One Can’t Paint New York As It Is, But Rather As It Is Felt.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

 

I Said To Myself, 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.

– Georgia O’Keeffe

Marks On Paper Are Free – Free Speech – Press – Pictures All Go Together I Suppose.

– Georgia O’Keeffe