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American artist known for her distinctive paintings of flowers and landscapes. O'Keeffe's work is renowned for its bold colors and innovative forms, which have had a profound impact on 20th-century American art.

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Famous Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

“The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty.”

Knows Seems Beauty Kindness Cutting Alive Empty Bones Desert Untouchables

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color?”

Ifs Knows Focus Color Flower

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.”

Thinking Knows Want Mean Feelings Sound Term My Own Expression Paint Dislike Cult Isms Expressionism Exponents

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“One works because I suppose it is the most interesting thing one knows to do. The days one works are the best days. On the other days one is hurrying through the other things one imagines one has to do to keep one's life going.”

Knows Interesting Imagine Most Interesting Interesting Things Hurrying

Book:An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe

“I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.”

Knows Mind Ideas Remember Artist Scrap

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.”

Knows Art Art Is

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.”

People Knows I Can Wonderful Unreasonable

Book:Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

Source: Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer

“I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.”

People Knows Want Art I Can Artist Flower Concerned Paint Individuality

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.”

Knows Enjoy Too Much Painting Flower

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella-- --When I had it in my hand it was so small I couldn't believe I had it--but I could feel the intense life--so intense and so tiny-- ...You were like the humming bird to me... And I am rather inclined to feel that you and I know the best part of one another without spending much time together-- --It is not that I fear the knowing-- It is that I am at this moment willing to let you be what you are to me--it is beautiful and pure and very intensely alive.”

Knows Feels Believe Moments Hands Together Beautiful Knowing Alive Willing One Day Pure Bird Window Spending Tiny Intense Flew Umbrella Time Together Humming Hummingbirds

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.”

Knows Believe Done I Believe Flower Like Something

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: 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 in terms of paint colour I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.”

Knows I Can Term Morning Sun Particular Flower Summer Paint Desert Colour Significance Can Not

Book:O'Keeffe

Source: O'Keeffe

About the Author

Born: November 15, 1887
Died: March 6, 1986
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 147

Books & Sources

Georgia O'KeeffeRelated source material

Georgia O'Keeffe: A LifeRelated source material

O'KeeffeRelated source material

Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around AbstractionRelated source material

Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita PollitzerRelated source material

Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita PollitzerRelated source material

An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'KeeffeRelated source material

Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'iRelated source material

Georgia O'Keeffe: nature and abstractionRelated source material

Georgia O'Keeffe: selected paintings and works on paper : April 26 through June 6, 1986Related source material

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