Georgia O'Keefe Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

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

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

I don't really know where I got my artist idea - I only know that by that time it was definitely settled in my mind.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

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.

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

My first memory is of the brightness of light - light all around. I was sitting among pillows on a quilt on the ground - very large white pillows.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

There was a long weathered carpenter's bench under the tall tree in front of the little old house that Lawrence had lived in there.

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