Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.

Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.

It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.

Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.

I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.

I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

When you've written a song, sometimes it's really hard to wrap your brain around what somebody else is doing, or maybe the way that they see the song.

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul.

The way we see things is constantly changing. At the moment the way we see things has been left a lot to the camera. That shouldn't necessarily be.

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible.

Drawing is not the same as form, it is a way of seeing form.

Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he wasn't quite sure what that would be. The person who was bullying him produced a photograph of his wife from his wallet and said, "There, you see, that is a picture of how she really is." Picasso looked at it and said, "She is rather small, isn't she? And flat?"

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.

It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters.

I paint flowers to prevent them from dying

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.