Seems Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

8 Seems quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe

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These eight short statements from the painter reveal how she questioned visual expectations, turning simple scenes into profound art. The set is brief, but it captures her distinctive visual philosophy.

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Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not…

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It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog.

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I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls…

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It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason…

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So, probably … when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones — what…

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My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth…

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The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is…

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It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men…

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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…

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You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

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“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…

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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…

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

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My first memory is of the brightness of light ... light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground…

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Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man?…

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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…

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“I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to ... I found that I could say…

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

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He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow - in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many…

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

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