About Georgia O'Keeffe
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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I hate flowers—I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
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The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
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