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. Georgia O'Keeffe More Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe More Quotes From Georgia O'Keeffe I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint colour I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time. Georgia O'Keeffe flower summer morning I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to. Georgia O'Keeffe fool paint stupid I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it. Georgia O'Keeffe copies flower art It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased. Georgia O'Keeffe flower quiet country He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow - in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many different ways - also my head - and I had to turn this way and that. There were nudes that might have been of several different people - sitting - standing - even standing upon the radiator against the window - that was difficult - radiators don't intend you to stand on top of them. (On being photographed by Alfred Stieglitz) Georgia O'Keeffe hands people moving Since I cannot sing, I paint. Georgia O'Keeffe paint artist His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty. Georgia O'Keeffe cold letters water School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself. I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for. Georgia O'Keeffe shapes stupid school I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate. Georgia O'Keeffe creativity half acceptance The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can. Georgia O'Keeffe ego simple facts Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something. Georgia O'Keeffe color tree art It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it. Georgia O'Keeffe appreciate flower art 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. Georgia O'Keeffe dies reason-why people I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle many times, I did a misty landscape of the mountain across the lake, Georgia O'Keeffe knowing lakes long The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint. Georgia O'Keeffe paint form art It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog. Georgia O'Keeffe missions dog waiting One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt. Georgia O'Keeffe flower new-york art 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. Georgia O'Keeffe white home beautiful The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty, I thought 'I can paint one of those dismal-coloured paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try - all low-toned and dreary with the tree besides the door.' In my next show, 'The Shanty' went up. The men seemed to approve of it. They seemed to think that maybe I was beginning to paint. That was my only low-toned dismal-coloured painting. Georgia O'Keeffe fun men thinking Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country. Georgia O'Keeffe flower crosses country
