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
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 see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well. — 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
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands... — 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
When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had… — 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
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 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
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
“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
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
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters. — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every… — 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
