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Georgia O'Keeffe

Read through the most famous quotes from Georgia O'Keeffe




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


— Georgia O'Keeffe


#arts #courage #create #takes #world

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.


— Georgia O'Keeffe


#been #doing #every #i #keep

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


— Georgia O'Keeffe


#friend #haven #like #nobody #really

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


#america #american #feel #going #like

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.


— Georgia O'Keeffe


#beauty #could #decided #flower #huge

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.


— Georgia O'Keeffe


#cheaper #flowers #hate #i #models

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.


— Georgia O'Keeffe


#closely #concerned #helped #i #i can

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.


— Georgia O'Keeffe


#explore #feel #i #i feel #only

The days you work are the best days.


— Georgia O'Keeffe


#days #work #you

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.


— Georgia O'Keeffe


#any #color #could #found #had






About Georgia O'Keeffe






Did you know about Georgia O'Keeffe?

In 1924 Georgia O'Keeffe painted her first large-scale flower painting Petunia No. By age ten Georgia O'Keeffe had decided to become an artist and Georgia O'Keeffe and her sister received art instruction from local watercolorist Sara Mann. She painted flowers landscapes and traditional Hawaiian fishhooks.

She made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens and New York buildings most of which date from the same decade. Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15 1887 – March 6 1986) was an American artist.

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