Home / Quotes / Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe

Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe

“I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.”

Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe

Author

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

You May Also Like

“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 meaning of a word - to me - is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words.”

Color Shapes Statements Definite

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: 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

“Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.”

Happiness Interesting Wind

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.”

Has Beens Water Fine Cold Letters Thirsty Cold Water

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“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

“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

“War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.”

Ifs War Individual Killing Soldier Good Soldiers

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.”

Ifs Knows Happens Pain Strong History Events Seasons Harmony Statements Historian Lacking Right Time Convincing Sequence Elusive Dealings No Pain Verify

Book:To Think of Tea!

Source: To Think of Tea!

“But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.”

Ifs Self Facts Satisfaction Refuse Ugly Tricks Gas Sunshine Self-satisfaction

Book:Books and Men

Source: Books and Men