Georgia O'Keeffe - Work Quotes

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Anita – I am so glad I'm out here – I can't tell you how much I like it. I like the plains – and I like the work [her painting] – everything is so ridiculously new – and there is something about it that just makes you glad you're living here – You understand – there is nothing here – so maybe there is something wrong with me that I am liking it so much.

Georgia O'Keeffe
It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

Georgia O'Keeffe
I had wanted to talk with you about lots of things... I am anxious to get to work for the fall – it is always my best time I had one particular painting – that tree in Lawrence's front yard as you see it when you lie under it on the table – with stars – it looks as tho it is standing on its head – I wanted you to see it..

Georgia O'Keeffe
I painted 'the Shelton with Sunspots' [New York], in 1926. I went out one morning to look at it before I started to work and there was the optical illusion of a bite out of one side of the tower made by the sun, with sunspots against the building and against the sky. I made that painting beginning at the upper left and went off at the lower right without going back.

Georgia O'Keeffe
.. About my work Howard – I always have two opinions – one is my way of seeing it for myself – and for myself I am never satisfied – never really – I almost always fail – always I think – now next time I can do it – Maybe that is part of what keeps one working – I can also look at myself – by that I mean my work from the point of view of the looking public – and that is the way I look at it when I think of showing. I have always first had a show for myself – and made up my mind – then after that it doesn't matter to me very much what anyone else say – good or bad.

Georgia O'Keeffe
Alfred [Stieglitz] was always apprehensive about my new things. When I started painting big flowers he said, 'Well, what do you think you are going to do with that?' He was always nervous until the first notices came in. When I brought back my bones from New Mexico and began to work on them he had a fit.

Georgia O'Keeffe
When I came to New Mexico in the summer of 1929, I was so crazy about the country that I thought, how can I take part of it with me to work on? There was nothing to see in the land in the way of a flower. There were just dry white bones. So I picked them up.... I took back a barrel of bones to New York.

Georgia O'Keeffe
I locked myself up in my room and held a private exhibition of everything I had painted. I notice which paintings had been influenced by this painter, which by that one. The I determined which of the finished pieces represented me alone. From that moment forward I knew exactly what kind of work I wanted to do.

Georgia O'Keeffe
I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.

Georgia O'Keeffe