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
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands... — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
So, probably … when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones — what… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth… — 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
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
