Georgia O'Keefe
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American artist. She is associated with the American Southwest, where she found artistic inspiration, and particularly New Mexico, where she settled late in life. O'Keeffe has been a major figure in American art since the 1920s. She is chiefly known for paintings in which she synthesized abstraction and representation in paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes. Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors. She often transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.
“My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.”
Georgia O'Keefe
“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
Georgia O'Keefe
“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”
Georgia O'Keefe
“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.”
Georgia O'Keefe
“I decided to accept as true my own thinking.”
Georgia O'Keefe
“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.”
Georgia O'Keefe
“I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.”
Georgia O'Keefe
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.”
Georgia O'Keefe