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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

“I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is.”

Way Seems

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe, the Bermuda respite: October 28, 1994-January 27, 1995

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe, the Bermuda respite: October 28, 1994-January 27, 1995

“My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth.”

Feels Mind Wells Doe Seems Earth Growth Sun Possibility Empty Hot Shining Warm Plot

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically.”

People Reason Seems Dies Reason Why

Book:Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer

Source: Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer

“It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.”

Men World Important Ideas Country Seems Democracy Sky Equal Men And Women

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.”

Thinking May Ideas Seems Walks Rocks Ordinary Paint Why Not Realising Now And Then Old Rock

Book:O'Keeffe

Source: O'Keeffe

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

Seems Waiting Dog Missions Missions In Life

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“So, probably … when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones — what I saw through them- particularly the blue from holding them up in the sun against the sky as one is apt to do when one seems to have more sky than earth in one’s world … they were most beautiful against the Blue — that Blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.”

Men World Seems Earth Beautiful Sun Saws Sky Painting Destruction Blue Bones Finished Holes

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

Source: An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia 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

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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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