Knows Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

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

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

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

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

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“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

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

I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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

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

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

“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

My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

— Georgia O'Keeffe