Georgia O'Keeffe Quotes

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

Well, why is this art? Why isn't that art?

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.

There is no best anything in art.

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules.

I like the feeling of being able to confront an experience and resolve it as art.

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Art is the highest form of hope.

Everything an artist spits is art.