Georgia O'Keeffe
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“I'm getting to like you so tremendously that it sometimes scares me.”
Source: My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz
“Come quickly. You mustn’t miss the dawn. It will never be just like this again.”
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“Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.”
Source: Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe, the Bermuda respite: October 28, 1994-January 27, 1995
“All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe
“I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.”
Source: Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
“When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
“I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.”
Source: Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
“Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”
Source: An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
Source: An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe
“The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.”
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Source: Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer
“Since I cannot sing, I paint.”
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Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
“I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.”
Source: Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer
“God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.”
“Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
“I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.”
“I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe, Works on Paper: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe
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Source: Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer
“Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.”
“His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.”