Bigs Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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 be surprised…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite,…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

A beautiful flower does not exist. There's only a moment when a flower looks beautiful.

— Yohji Yamamoto

I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to…

— Georges Vantongerloo

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

— Honore de Balzac

You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.

— Georgia O'Keeffe