I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected. — 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
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
Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me. — 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
I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no… — 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
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
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
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
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 abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me,… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no… — 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 had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
