Georgia O'Keeffe

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

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#copy #create #equivalent #felt #had

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

#being #down #hasn #head #i

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. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#bench #branches #fine #i #into

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

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#new #new york #paint #rather #york

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

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#country #crosses #feel #get #simply

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

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#away #been #decided #had #i

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#free speech #go #i #marks #paper

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#always #cannot #expression #i #i think

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

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#anything #believe #done #else #had

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#apart #enjoy #general #i #know