I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big. — 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
It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I… — 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
One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see… — 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
I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment.” — 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
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to… — 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
I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to… — 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… — 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
