Georgia O'Keeffe quotes

«So I said to myself, I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.»

«Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.»

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

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

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

«Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.»

«Nichts ist weniger real als der Realismus. Einzelheiten sind verwirrend. Nur durch Auswahl, Weglassung und Betonung stoßen wir zur wahren Bedeutung der Dinge vor.»

«... daß wenn ich die gleichen Blumen in klein malte niemand sie anschauen würde, da ich unbekannt war. Also dachte ich, daß ich sie so groß wie Hochhäuser machen müsse. Die Leute wären verwirrt, daß sie sie ansehen müßten - und genau das taten sie.»