I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness. Georgia O'Keeffe More Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe More Quotes From Georgia O'Keeffe Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color? Georgia O'Keeffe focus color flower All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands. Georgia O'Keeffe painter miles earth War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier. Georgia O'Keeffe killing soldier war I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all woman, as well as all of me. Georgia O'Keeffe painting skills trying If only people were trees… I might like them better. Georgia O'Keeffe tree might people I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again. Georgia O'Keeffe creativity inspirational fall I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling. Georgia O'Keeffe expression mean thinking One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work. Georgia O'Keeffe flower feels america 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. Georgia O'Keeffe painting fashion goes-on 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? Georgia O'Keeffe wall paper trying I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them. Georgia O'Keeffe art-is knows art I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me. Georgia O'Keeffe criticism mind writing I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all. Georgia O'Keeffe desire sweet world I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know. Georgia O'Keeffe flower done believe There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it. Georgia O'Keeffe color-black black feels I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them. Georgia O'Keeffe symbolism new-york thinking 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. Georgia O'Keeffe quilts white memories I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know. Georgia O'Keeffe unreasonable wonderful people Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are. Georgia O'Keeffe wicked-things wicked art I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected. Georgia O'Keeffe artist believe world
