It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve. Georgia O'Keeffe More Quotes by Georgia O'Keeffe More Quotes From Georgia O'Keeffe Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. Georgia O'Keeffe painting abstract objectives I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. Georgia O'Keeffe learning flower letting-go I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing. Georgia O'Keeffe happenings knowing life I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well. Georgia O'Keeffe painting form reason I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't. Georgia O'Keeffe flower writing thinking We'd make love. Afterwards he would take photographs of me. (On modeling for Alfred Stieglitz) Georgia O'Keeffe modeling making-love photograph 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. Georgia O'Keeffe killing-yourself ifs sight Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage. Georgia O'Keeffe teacher believe art So, probably … when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones — what I saw through them- particularly the blue from holding them up in the sun Georgia O'Keeffe blue beautiful men 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. Georgia O'Keeffe portraits real world I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind. Georgia O'Keeffe artist mind ideas I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. Georgia O'Keeffe painting too-much flower I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down - I seem to have nothing to say - it appalls me but that is the way it is. Georgia O'Keeffe seems way It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another world here-... always we go to a new place...the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland. Georgia O'Keeffe nice country people 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. Georgia O'Keeffe flower ideas thinking On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then the woods with a few birch trees shining white at the edge on beyond. In the darkness it all looked just like I felt. Wet and swampy and gloomy, very gloomy. In the morning I painted it. My memory of it is that it was probably my best painting that summer. Georgia O'Keeffe summer morning memories We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see. Georgia O'Keeffe born blind heart Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint. Georgia O'Keeffe application paint easy 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. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. Georgia O'Keeffe If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. Georgia O'Keeffe
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