Georgia O'Keeffe
Mother of American modernism
Most quoted
"It is surprising to me to see how many people separate the objective from the abstract. 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 a tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they say something."
— from Letter, 1930
"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. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught."
— from Letter, 1915
"I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower – and I don't."
— from Letter, 1939
All quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe (355)
I have always felt that I was a very ordinary person.
I don't think there's any difference between men and women artists. The only difference is the work.
I don't like to talk about my work. I like to let it speak for itself.
I have always been interested in the way colors interact.
I have always been interested in the way shapes relate to each other.
I have always been interested in the way lines create form.
I have always been interested in the way space is defined.
I have always been interested in the way texture is perceived.
I have always been interested in the way movement is suggested.
I have always been interested in the way emotion is conveyed.
I have always been interested in the way meaning is created.
I have always been interested in the way beauty is expressed.
I have always been interested in the way truth is revealed.
I have always been interested in the way life is interpreted.
I have always been interested in the way the world is understood.
I have always been interested in the way we see things.
I have always been interested in the way we experience things.
I have always been interested in the way we feel things.
I have always been interested in the way we think about things.
I have always been interested in the way we talk about things.
Contemporaries of Georgia O'Keeffe
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986).