Artist Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe Download Open image “I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.” — Georgia O'Keeffe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artist Happening Life Happenings Inspirational Knowing Life Life Knowing Life Things Painted Painted Life Things happen
Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul. — Alexej von Jawlensky Copy Share Image
I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about.… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when or how… — Kylie Bunbury Copy Share Image
Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream. — Leonor Fini Copy Share Image
Painting from life was incredibly important for me because it allowed me to train my eyes to see everything that is there. But I… — Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Copy Share Image
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real. — Richard Pousette-Dart 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
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
