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

—Georgia O'Keeffe

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About Georgia O'Keeffe

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Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers,...

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

—Georgia O'Keeffe

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

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

—Georgia O'Keeffe

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

—Georgia O'Keeffe

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

—Georgia O'Keeffe

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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

—Pablo Picasso

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Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.

—Annie Dillard

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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

—Michelangelo

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

—Theodor W. Adorno

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

—Jerzy Kosiński

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