Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all? — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I like to convey the idea that art is important in everyday life. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
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,… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to ... I found that I… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind,… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty,… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“You paint from your subject, not what you see…I rarely paint anything I don’t know very well. It was surprising to me… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands... — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share
When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share
Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share
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… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share
“I said to myself 'I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me--shapes and idea so near to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share
I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share
I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share
My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share
Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man?… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share
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… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share
“I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to ... I found that I could say… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share
My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share
He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow - in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share
