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“Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”

Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe

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Georgia O'Keeffe

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. more

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“The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.”

Reason Running Painting Thread

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

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

“There is something so perfect about the mountains and the lake and the trees... sometimes I want to tear it all to pieces.”

Want Sometimes Perfect Pieces Tree Tears Mountain Perfection Lakes

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?”

Ifs Feels Trying Enough Whole Bigs Sides Wall Paper Sheets Charcoal

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified until it can be nothing but abstraction.”

Kind Sometimes Fashion Painting Goes On Realistic Realism Abstraction

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“When you get so that you can't see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn't come by it gradually, I guess you'd just kill yourself when you couldn't see.”

Ifs Sight Killing Yourself

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting and so the days go by.”

Littles Enjoy Hours Watches Sun Painting Draws Evening Desert

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp.”

Feels Important Turns Known Vision Important Things Catching Stale Vision Of Life

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it's the plains. I guess it's the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.”

Feelings Today Wonder Wonderful Week Mountain Carrie

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

“Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.”

Faces Quality Simplicity Enthusiasm Charm Charming Face To Face Candor

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