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 been interested in the things that are not tangible.
I have always been interested in the things that are not material.
I have always been interested in the things that are not physical.
I have always been interested in the things that are not real.
I have always been interested in the things that are not true.
I have always been interested in the things that are not false.
I have always been interested in the things that are not good.
I have always been interested in the things that are not bad.
I have always been interested in the things that are not right.
I have always been interested in the things that are not wrong.
I have always been interested in the things that are not beautiful.
I have always been interested in the things that are not ugly.
I have always been interested in the things that are not perfect.
I have always been interested in the things that are not flawed.
I have always been interested in the things that are not broken.
I have always been interested in the things that are not whole.
I have always been interested in the things that are not complete.
I have always been interested in the things that are not finished.
I have always been interested in the things that are not started.
I have always been interested in the things that are not ended.
Contemporaries of Georgia O'Keeffe
Other Visual Artss born within 50 years of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986).