Georgia O'Keeffe
12 quotes
“He estado sola tanto tiempo que estoy acostumbrada, pero no me gusta.”
“Cuando tomas una flor en tus manos y realmente la miras, ese es tu mundo por un momento.”
“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. 'Foreword' of the catalogue for the show at the Anderson Galleries in New York, 1926”
“I thought you could write something about me that men can't”
“I have been thinking of what you say about form.. .I feel that a real living form is the natural result of the individual’s effort to create the living thing out of the adventure of his spirit into the unknown.. ..and from that experience comes the desire to make the unknown known. By unknown I mean the thing that means so much to the person that he want to put it down”
“As I opened the door”
“The plains are very wonderful now”
“Walked way out in the plains in the moonlight”
“Your letter became before I was up this morning”
“Last night I couldn't sleep till after four in the morning”
“Today I walked into the sunset”
“Anita, I have just come the comforting conclusion that I'll have to paint acres and acres of water color landscapes before I will look for even a passably fair one. After about ten attempts”