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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

“I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.”

World Want Desire Sweet Glad Bitter Good And Bad Briars

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

“That nervous energy that makes people like you and I want and go after everything in the world - bump our heads on all the hard walls and scratch our hands on all the briars - but it makes living great - doesn't it - I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all and a lot of it too”

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

“I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.”

World Believe Persons Lasts Artist I Believe Affected

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

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

“I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to me. But they have passed into the world as abstractions - no one seeing what they are.”

World Real Shows Remember Seeing Painting Portraits Abstraction

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe, Works on Paper: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe, Works on Paper: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe

“The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.”

People World Morning Solitude Likes Pleasant Disposition Best Times

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me.”

World Giving Painting Giving Back

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i

“Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.”

World Believe Art I Believe Poor Teacher Very Good Painter Good Teacher

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“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

“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.”

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.”

People World Want Inspirational Giving Looks Moments Hands Nature Cities Flower Garden Blossoming Flower Garden Flowers And Gardens Flower Blossom Inspirational Flower

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.”

Ifs World Looks Moments Hands Nature Flower Garden Gardening Blossoming Wildflowers Flower Garden Garden Love Flowers And Gardens Flower Blossom Inspirational Flower

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding – to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.”

World Feels Trying Feelings Bigs Form Next Understanding Lines Fats Hills Horizon Infinity Unexplainable

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.”

Thinking World Effort Color Painting Paint Great Things Worth Living Life Worth Living World Life

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: paintings of Hawai'i

“When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too...I have used these things to say what is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.”

World Home Beautiful Used Found White Wonder Bones Desert Wonder Of The World

Book:O'Keeffe

Source: O'Keeffe

“It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another world here-... always we go to a new place...the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.”

People World Feels Kind Different Country Nice Busy Usual Different Kinds Far Away Hawaii Gentleness Another World New Places

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

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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